Personally I’m not convinced of the benefits, supported by Pip Hills’ explanation of the (demise of the) process in his book Appreciating whisky. There’s a certain group of whisky lovers that thinks Paxarete was the magnificent key to some legendary ‘dark sherry’ whiskies of the 1950s and 1960s. And if you’ve ever visited Bodegas Tradición or tried La Bota n☃3 from Equipo Navazos then you’ll know vino de color can be quite wonderful after decades in a barrel. It’s a little rough to drink neat, but it can certainly add punch to a middle-of-the-road blended sherry. It contains a lot of pigment, with lots of sweetness but also a firm bitter side. It fell into disuse in the 1970s but a lot of sherry bodegas still have a stash of vino de color. In fact the (in)famous Paxarete (usually misspelled as paxarette) is also a kind of vino de color. In the past, both were essential elements in Golden Sherry or Brown Sherry. Arrope is similar to sancocho which is cooked down to about 33%. In itself it is not a sherry but a barrel-aged mix of young wine with arrope, a gooey black syrup that is the result of cooking down fresh grape must (usually Pedro Ximénez) to about 20% of its volume.
Vino de Color is an allowed complimentary product in sherry production, similar to E150 in whisky. Later it moved to a Vino de Color cask until Artful Dodger bottled it.
To think of Jack Dawkins-lummy Jack-the Dodger-the Artful Dodger-going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box! I never thought he'd a done it under a gold watch, chain, and seals, at the lowest.This 8 year old Bunnahabhain 2013 started its life in a bourbon hogshead.
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'I must have a full suit of mourning, Fagin, and a hatband, to wisit him in, afore he sets out upon his travels. They've found the gentleman as owns the box two or three more's a coming to 'dentify him and the Artful's booked for a passage out,' replied Master Bates. The absurdity of the master pickpocket being caught over something so small is remarked upon in the book. Ultimately the Dodger is caught with a stolen silver snuff box and presumably sent to a penal colony in Australia (only alluded to in the novel). He was, altogether, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers'. He had turned the cuffs back, half-way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves: apparently with the ultimate view of thrusting them into the pockets of his corduroy trousers for there he kept them. He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels. His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly, that it threatened to fall off every moment-and would have done so, very often, if the wearer had not had a knack of every now and then giving his head a sudden twitch, which brought it back to its old place again. He was short of his age: with rather bow-legs, and little, sharp, hazel eyes. 'He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man. He is described as wearing adult clothes which are much too large for him. The Artful Dodger is characterized as a child who acts like an adult. In the novel, he becomes Oliver's closest friend (although he betrays him when Oliver is mistakenly caught) and he tries to make him a pickpocket, but soon realizes that Oliver won't succeed, and feels sorry for him, saying "What a pity it is he isn't a prig!" He also has a close relationship with Charley Bates.
He is the leader of the gang of child criminals, trained by the elderly Fagin. Dodger is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that respect. Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.
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