Sherry is a fortified wine ( contains brandy) so should last longer than wine I think it'll be OK some years back use to make it by the gallon

H

This is interesting:

http://www.doesitgobad.com/does-sherry-go-bad/

It suggests 18 months to 3 years in bottle, depending on the type.

Once open, drink in a month or use for cooking within a year.

It has a neat tip for removing a corked taste.

Shelf life…? The odd bottle I've had never stayed on any shelf long enough to have a life…

Geo.

way back the mists of time I used to like the odd bottle of Newcastle Brown. That was when I lived in West London and the bitter was awful, Younger's Tartan etc. One long party when we'd all had a bit too much someone gave me a pint glass full of a brownish liquid, which I drank. Drinking sherry by the pint is not a good idea, in fact I still can't stand the stuff.

We gave up buying sherry.

Would buy a bottle with the weekly shop, get back home and have 'a sherry' whilst we unloaded/put away the shop before lunch, and ended up every week with the bottle neigh-on gone before we had lunch.

When it got to the stage when we regularly took the top off a new bottle of sherry and threw it away on the basis we'd not need it again we binned buying sherry.

It was nice though………

We did too – probably 7 or 8 years ago after many years. The "excitement" had worn off. That left a half-used bottle tucked away in a corner of the drinks-cabinet.

About 6 months ago we "rediscovered" it (well, to be honest, we'd run out of pretty much everything else and the liquor store was closed). The sherry, in the opened bottle, was just fine (other than the cork being "welded" into the bottle) ….. and we genuinely have rediscovered it now.

When we were born dad made each of us a bottle of his home made wine, then when we were 21 we opened it, and drank it, no problem. Mam, Dad brother and sister all died of old age, and I'll soon be 84. Dad made beer and wine including sherry all his life, he grew hops in the garden, boiler it up in an old gas copper and drank the end product, died very happy if not a little inebriated. John

Golly, that takes me back to my student days. End of Autumn term, a house/course-mate and I had a lab report to submit before going home for Christmas, so we finished it late at night. There was a just-opened bottle of Baileys, which we decided would have gone off by the time we got back in January; after we disposed of that bottle, for some reason we decided the other bottle – even though un-opened – might suffer (loneliness?) – so that was seen off as well. When our lab reports were returned, they were marked "marvellous prose style but light on factual content".

I was a avid home brewer in the 80's, and still have a couple of bottles of home made sherry left from 1982, and its quite drinkable! Later on we added a homebrew section to our cookshop, and still have a few bottles of home made wine customers gave us, haven't dared open them yet!