If there’s one true secret-weapon ingredient in our cocktail arsenal, it would be sherry. Well, sherries. To say “sherry” is misleading, because these fortified wines are crazy diverse — fino sherries ...

Perhaps it is because I first learned about amontillado sherry in the dinner scene from the movie “Babette’s Feast,” but I’ve always thought of it as a food wine. You might want to do the same, ...