sherry
From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails
, a fortified wine with a long history of appearances in cocktails of various sorts, reached its apotheosis in the Sherry Cobbler, an early nineteenth-century creation. See also Sherry Cobbler, wines, fortified.
This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).