You may substitute sweet Sherry, or dry Sherry if you add sugar since Mirin is a sweet rice wine.
brown rice vinegar OR Chinese black vinegar (cheaper) OR red wine vinegar + sugar or honey OR sherry vinegar OR fruit vinegar
Desset wines have the highest sugar content. This would include wines such as Port, Muscat, and Sherry as well as other late-harvest wines. The color and the sugar content are not connected.
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Cooking sherry is low-quality sherry with salt added. There is no reason to buy cooking sherry. Purchase any inexpensive sherry and this will give you better control over the sodium content of your food. For a non alcoholic substitute try a mixture of vinegar, sugar and a dash of lemon juice OR a mixture of apple, cranberry and grape juice. Orange or pineapple juice can also be used.
Sherry is a wine that is fortified with brandy. Medium dry sherry is a cooking wine that is used in a variety of recipes.
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Sherry is a fortified wine, usually brown in color. Wine vinegars are the result of bacterial action increasing the acidity in wine while lowering the alcohol content. Sherry vinegar is a type or sub-set of wine vinegar, often sweeter that most wine vinegars, started from Sherry wine. While other types of wine vinegar often show up in vinigrettes and salad dressing, due to its sweetness and stronger flavor, Sherry Vinegar does so rarely if at all. Other types of wine vinegars include red, white, champagne etc. Sherry vinegar is often used as a substitute for sweetened rice vinegar (Mirin).
No, vinegar contains no wine and tastes very different than sherry.
I would not recomment it. Sherry is a fortified red wine. You can use vinegar or lemon juice in most recipes calling for white wine.
Jerez, Spain.
No, because sauternes is a sweet white wine, while marsala and sherry are red and can be dry.