What's the difference between brandy and sherry?!
What's the difference between brandy and sherry?
Answers:
Brandy is distilled wine. This reduced water content and raises alcohol since the higher alcohol content kills the yeast and their ability to produce alcohol. It's usually 40% abv or so.
Brandy is commonly used in fortified wines. It's added to wine at different stages to produce a higher alcohol drink. In Sherry, it's usually added after fermentation is complete and amost fermentable sugars are gone and turned into alcohol. With Port wine, Brandy is added before fermentation is complete so that there are sugars still present so it's sweeter. The higher alcohol addition kills the yeast so the sugars remain.