Tio Pepe Palomino Fino Sherry 75cl

Want a white wine that wakes up your appetite instead of fading into the background? From Jerez in southern Spain, Tio Pepe is a bone-dry Fino sherry made from Palomino grapes and aged beneath a protective layer of flor yeast. That unusual ageing keeps it pale and razor-crisp, bringing salty almond, fresh bread and green apple flavours that feel seriously refreshing before dinner or beside seafood.

• Appearance: Pale straw with bright, silvery flashes.
• Nose: Green apple, fresh bread dough, roasted almonds and a salty sea-breeze edge.
• Palate: Bone-dry and crisp, with lemon peel, almond and savoury yeast.
• Body: Light-bodied, brisk and seriously mouthwatering.
• Finish: Clean, saline and lingering, with almond skin and citrus.

Serve it properly chilled as an aperitif when you want something sharper and more savoury than the usual crisp white before dinner.

Pair it with salted almonds, briny oysters or crisp fried calamari, where its salty snap cuts through every bite.

If Sauvignon Blanc is your usual aperitif, this is the bolder Spanish next step: drier, nuttier and far more savoury.

Fun Fact: Tio Pepe means “Uncle Pepe.” Founder Manuel María González named the sherry after his uncle José Ángel, who taught him the business.