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This is a 1955 magazine advertisement for La Ina Sherry produced in Spain by Pedro Domecq. - U.S. Importer: Canada Dry Ginger Ale, NY
--- In 1725 an Irishman, Patrick Murphy had set up the sherry company that the Domecqs, then a minor French noble family, inherited in 1822. Pedro Domecq produced brandy and sherry until 1994 when the family was bought out and Pedro Domecq became part of the UK-based Allied Domecq. La Ina Sherry is considered by many critics to be one of the benchmark Spanish Finos. Bone-dry with a lovely pale-straw hue, this medium-bodied sherry features fresh apple, almond and yeast flavors from its biological aging under a protective layer of flor yeast.
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