Brandy vs. Sherry: What's the Difference?

An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.

A fortified Spanish wine ranging from very dry to sweet and from amber to brown.

To preserve, flavor, or mix with brandy.

A similar wine made elsewhere.

(uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.

(uncountable) A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

(countable) Any variety of brandy.

A variety of sherry.

(countable) A glass of brandy.

A glass of sherry.

(transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.

A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down.

A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europe, it is also applied to a spirit obtained from grain.

Dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif

Distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice