t’s a rare thing to see or hear the words ‘sherry cask matured’ accompanied by any kind of explanation. What’s more, terms like ‘Spanish cask’, ‘Spanish oak’, ‘European oak’ and ‘sherry cask’ are often, to my dismay, used interchangeably. Even more confusingly, terms like ‘bodega cask’ and ‘solera’ crop up on labels with increasing frequency, and in other cases the styles of wine associated with (but not exclusively made in) Jerez
