10 Best Dry Sherry in the UK 2024 (Waitrose, Tio Pepe and More)

Williams & Humbert has been crafting award-winning sherry since 1877, with this amber-coloured offering being a drier style of Oloroso that has been aged for at least 12 years. With notes of dried fruit and nuts that linger in your mouth, this sherry has won a multitude of wine awards and is prefect served slightly chilled.

Rich and savoury, this sherry is likely to become a firm favourite in your drinks cabinet. There is a wide selection of notes in this sherry, and it is satisfyingly substantial without being cloying. It's especially good on the nose, and is very well balanced being both full-bodied and light. A true flavour experience!

This sherry is an International Wine Challenge Gold Medal winner, and it blends of the best Palo Cortado and Pedro Ximenez grapes of over 30 years old in perfect harmony. Dark amber in hue after 30 years ageing in oak, it marries the best of its two grape varieties and is spectacularly intense and complex.

Although this has a higher price point than other sherries in our listing, it offers fantastic value for a wine aged for 30 years and is likely to be way beyond any sherry you've tasted before in terms of quality. The two grapes are balanced perfectly in dryness and sweetness and its richness is unbelievably moreish.

The world’s best-selling Fino sherry, Tio Pepe is produced from Palomino Fino, a grape variety that thrives in the chalky soil of Jerez. It is barrel-aged for a minimum of 5 years to give a crisp, fresh and uncompromisingly dry Fino. Best served chilled straight from the fridge, Tio Pepe is fantastic both on its own or with food.

This is a very decent mid-range sherry that maybe lacks the subtlety of wines from the smaller producers, but it has a solid fan base nonetheless. It lends itself well to being used in cooking but is also fantastic as an aperitif to whet your appetite. If you're looking for something versatile that offers great value, this is hard to beat. 

This sherry has been matured beneath a constant veil of yeast that only occurs on the beachfront in Sanlucar, giving this Manzanilla a dry but full-bodied finish that's both fruity and minerally in taste. Densely packed on the nose with currants, flowers and oak, it is truly a sherry for all your senses.

Lovers of flavours with a salty hit will love this sherry with its seaside and ozone notes, making it crisp and refreshing but with an unusual edge. This is a good mid-range sherry that could offer a solid alternative to more mainstream producers. 

A light crisp Fino sherry in the classic Jerez style, this sherry is full of tangy aromas with a bright, refreshing purity and yeasty notes. Pale and dry while being tangy and refreshing, it marries flavours of apples and almonds with freshly baked bread. It is best served chilled and also pairs well with seafood. 

This is a really excellent basic sherry, and it lends itself to cooking as well as drinking in the sunshine. It possibly lacks somewhat in distinctive character, but it is great value and would be a fantastic first step into the realm of dry sherries for those who aren't sure where to begin. 

Owned by the Barbadillo family since 1821, this sherry is aged for 3 years to preserve its fresh fruit flavours. Bodegas Barbadillo is the world's leading Manzanilla producer, and this offering is amazingly dry and refreshing with fresh citrus and apple flavours as well as hints of fresh bread and buttery brioche with a saline finish.

Some found this Manzanilla a little too harsh for their liking, saying that it lacked the well-rounded flavour they'd expect from such a producer. That said, there are legions of fans of its crisp and dry fruity finish, and they say that it has a truly authentic flavour and is fantastic value for money.  

This superbly dry Oloroso has been made exclusively for Waitrose & Partners and is blended with assistance from the cellar master of the historic Lustau producer in the heart of Andalusia's sherry region. Traditional in style, it has intense flavours of roasted chestnuts, dried fruits and savoury spices.

This is another fairly divisive sherry, with drinkers either revering its complexity or finding it entirely lacking in subtlety. However, they also remark how well it pairs with strong cheeses and advise that for the price it is a sherry of fantastic quality. This may be one to work up to if you're not sure. 

Made from the very finest Palomino grapes and aged for 12 years, Delicado Amontillado shows the finesse and lightness of a Fino combined with the complexity of flavours that come from its extended ageing period. The rich flavours of almonds and hazelnuts are balanced perfectly with a light body, a refreshing saline tang and subtle hints of caramel.

This is a very refreshing sherry that's perfect to drink chilled in the summer heat, but its flavours are very divisive with people either loving it or not being able to drink it. The smooth finish with salty notes does stand up to most dishes, though, as well as being suitable for drinking on its own.  

This superb Palo Cortado is blended by working closely with the sherry producer in the heart of Andalusia's historic sherry region. Typical of the style, this sherry lies somewhere between an Oloroso and an Amontillado by combining the aromatic flavours of baked orange and roasted hazelnuts.

While this is a very popular choice and has plenty of fans, it sits firmly on the border of dry and medium so it may not suit all palates. The labelling could also be improved with more specific information about the producer and the grape varieties. 

This medium dry sherry hails from Jerez de la Frontera, with its humid climate and salty Atlantic air. The sherry itself is light amber in colour, and it has a distinctive nutty nose with hints of dry fruit. It is delicious paired with pâtés, nuts and cheeses or ideal as an aperitif.

The reason we've marked this down is that while it is described as being an Amontillado sherry, the description on the bottle only states it is "medium dry", making its origins ambiguous. However, this sherry is really easy to enjoy and it is also very attractively priced which may appeal to total sherry newbies.