NV Oloroso Jerez ($20). Delicious for its off-dry layers of toffee, nutty, espresso notes that linger on the smooth, chocolatey finish. Ready to drink now. (Quick Entertaining 10/06)

NV Amontillado Jerez ($20). Blockbuster stuff here, at a remarkable price. With complex aromas and flavors that include toasted almond, caramel, sweet tobacco, mocha and exotic spices that come together on a smooth, integrated, lingering, just off-dry finish. Ready to drink now. (Quick Entertaining 10/06)

NV Fino Jerez La Ina ($14). Just a beautiful wine, and such a deal! With delicate, pretty yeast notes on the crisp green apple and hay flavors that linger on the dry finish. Ready to drink now. (Quick Entertaining 10/06)

NV Amontillado Jerez Medium Dry ($14). Not overly complex, but still tasty for its medium-bodied marshmallow, toffee and spice flavors. Slurpable and ready to drink now. (Quick Entertaining 10/06)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Fino Tio Pepe ($16). A great everyday Fino, offering classic roasted almond aromas and flavors, a crisp, mouthwatering character, and touches of wildflowers and sea salt mingling with the distinctive mineral notes. Ready to drink now. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Oloroso Seco Palomino Alfonso ($20). Bone dry, intense, tangy, racy — with pronounced nutty character, brine notes upfront, and spice, mineral and touches of prune. Long, focused finish. Serve chilled — try with fried calamari or grilled quail legs, as well as the more obvious Marcona almonds. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Palo Cortado Apostoles Muy Viejo ($49). A knockout wine, deep and rich and elegant, off-dry, offering deep caramel and aged oak accents to the apricot skin, dried apricot and raisin flavors. With a lightly tangy salt-water note. Enjoy slightly chilled as an aperitif, paired with cured meats, or at the end of a meal with dried fruits and nuts. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Oloroso Abocado Palomino-Pedro Ximenez Cristina ($20). “Abocado” indicates a medium-sweet wine, which still leaves a little room for variation. This one is on the drier end of medium-sweet, offering plenty of smoky oak, spice and almond skin notes mingling with dried fruit and caramelized brown sugar. Overall smooth and pretty, with a long finish. Pair with roasted almonds and Manchego, or the like. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Pedro Ximenez Dulce Nectar ($20). Seriously molasses-laden, in taste and mouthfeel, plus raisin, meaty walnut and sweet herbal notes, with an intensely rich, thick finish. A great example of the complexity and wow factor at a low price that sweet Sherry can offer. Like nothing else on earth! Ready to drink now. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Pedro Ximenez Viejo Noe ($49, 375ml). Intense and rich, but somehow maintaining a sense of lovely brightness, with super-thick texture and flavors of treacle, spiced fig compote, raisin, Turkish coffee and plump dried plums, with a long, lingering, complex finish. Ready to drink now. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Oloroso Dulce Solera 1847 ($20). Very good — and a great value. Offering concentrated prune, molasses, toffee and whole spices, with a long, intense, walnut-tinged finish. Ready to drink now. Pair with slices of fruitcake around the holidays, or elevate a simple bowl of vanilla ice cream with a healthy drizzle of this. Also works surprisingly well with an after-dinner cheese course including nuts and dried fruits. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Jerez (Sherry) Oloroso Dulce Viejo Matusalem ($49, 375ml). Offers beautiful elegance and expressiveness, with sweet baking spice overtones to the raisiny character, along with plump prune, creamy chocolate, dried fruit, toasted oak, and a long, rich finish. Ready to drink now. Locate this wine online or in your area. (2011-05-12)

NV Pedro Ximenez Jerez VORS Noe ($25). Frankly sweet, but with complex, delicious butterscotch, coffee, fig and roasted almond notes that linger on the mouthcoating finish. Ready to drink now. (Quick Entertaining 10/06)

NV Oloroso Jerez Solera 1847 ($N/A). Delicate aroma is lovely and leads to a full-bodied, smooth oloroso. Deep ripe raisin fruit with a definite caramel component. Tasty finish. Ready to drink now. (Robyn’s Picks, 08/01)

Orange ($15) — a blend of dry and sweet sherry jazzed up with a burst of fragrant, natural orange essence. It’s actually really interesting, offering more complexity than we might have expected, and it smells great. We practically wanted to dab it behind our ears. (Weekend Wine 08/07)

Fino ($15), the dry, crisp sherry style that is best served cold as an aperitif and is a classic match for marcona almonds and Spanish olives. (Weekend Wine 08/07)

Reserve ($15) is dessert-sweet and, in fact, is a tasty pairing for nutty, syrupy desserts, like pecan pie, fig tarts or honey-soaked almonds over ice cream. (Weekend Wine 08/07)