amontillado

[ uh-mon-tl-ah-doh, -tee-ah-; Spanish ah-mawn-tee-lyah-thaw, -yah-thaw ]

noun

1. a pale, dry Spanish sherry.

amontillado

/ əˌmɒntɪˈlɑːdəʊ /

noun

1. a medium dry Spanish sherry, not as pale in colour as a fino

Word History and Origins

Origin of amontillado¹

1815–25; < Spanish, equivalent to a to, near (< Latin ad ) + Montill ( a ) ( montilla ) + -ado -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of amontillado¹

C19: from Spanish vino amontillado wine of Montilla, town in Spain

Example Sentences

Amontillado, by itself, is innocent.

From Seattle Times

“I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado, and I have my doubts.”

From Seattle Times

This is the phrase spoken by the unnamed protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”; it is an ordinary phrase in itself but, to a self-professed wine connoisseur, it forms an irresistible challenge, a chance to prove one’s palate against the crime of wine fraud.

From Seattle Times

The protagonist might well have his doubts, however, since there is no actual Amontillado in the story at all.

From Seattle Times

His central evidence seemed to be Poe's famous story, "The Cask of Amontillado," in which a man named Montresor bricks up a drunken man named Fortunato, evidently an old friend, behind a wall of masonry.

From Salon