If a recipe calls for ‘Chinese cooking wine or dry sherry’, fino or manzanilla are good substitutes; sweet sherry is not.

If a recipe calls for ‘Chinese cooking wine or dry sherry’, fino or manzanilla are good substitutes; sweet sherry is not.

What does sherry taste like? Dry styles like fino and manzanilla have a taste of fresh apples combined with almond, yeasty Marmite and bready notes. Not unlike a champagne of white burgundy.