Sherry - your good health

I'd hate to suggest that sherry is a drink for the debilitated. It has enough difficulties to contend with, typecast still (despite pages and pages of gushing wine writers' prose) as a rather dowdy tipple for maiden aunts and arthritic professors. But the first thing that made me feel human again after last week's bout of killer 'flu was a glass of nutty, warming Lustau Almacenista Manzanilla Amontillada (Superquinn, SuperValus, Fine Wines Limerick, O'Donovans Cork, Greenacres Wexford and many other outlets, half bottle usually £9.99). This is a true and very superior amontillado, rich and full-flavoured yet bone dry. It's also, I've been told on impeccable authority, a good choice for anybody in the later stages of pregnancy who finds that wine induces heartburn but who longs for one, just one, delicious drink.