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Pedro Ximénez
[PEH-droh hee-MEH-nihs; PAY-droh hee-MAYnays]

A white-wine grape grown in southern Spain whose name is the Hispanic transliteration of Peter Siemens, the man who brought the vine from Germany to Spain’s sherrymaking region, Jerez (jerez y manzanilla). Although usually associated with sherry, Pedro Ximénez (or PX, as it’s commonly called) has been heavily supplanted by palomino in Jerez and is now used mainly for sweetening and darkening the Palomino-based blends. Pedro Ximénez is still widely planted in Spain’s montilla-moriles area where it’s often processed to make a sherry-style wine. It’s also a major grape of Spain’s málaga region where it’s made into high-alcohol, medium- to very-sweet wines. In much of Spain, a light, rather bland, dry white table wine is also made from this variety. Pedro Ximénez is the most widely planted white variety in Argentina and is widely grown in Australia as well. In the United States, small amounts of sherry-style PX wines are used to soften blended whiskeys. Pedro Ximénez is also known as Pedro Jiménez and Pero Ximen.
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