[Sp.]
1. A blend of sherry wine.
1851. Redding, Mod. Wines, 396. The finest wines come thus into England in cases…. Soleras, sixteen years in wood [etc.].
1876. From Vineyard to Decanter, 23. In the shippers bodega many soleras are kept, each contained in a given number of butts.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 607/1. The wines … are reared for a number of years as soleras.
2. A wine-cask, usu. containing a double butt.
1863. T. G. Shaw, Wine, Vine, & Cellar, iv. 136. Stocks are kept in casks of all sizes, generally double butts, called soleras. Ibid., 139. The bungs of the soleras are never driven home.
