Gonzalez Byass Matusalem oloroso sherry butts before they are reunited to create this whisky. In modern terms, typical sack may have resembled cheaper versions of medium Oloroso sherry. That juice is typically used to make oloroso sherry. Oloroso casks are also used to age brandy for the same reasons. They will have to be re-labelled as "Cream Sherry&colon; Blend of Oloroso". Oloroso is usually dark and nutty. Above 16% the flor cannot survive, and so the wine essentially becomes an oloroso. Sweetened Oloroso can also be taken as a long drink with ice. The merchants began to call this wine oloroso meaning "pungent". In the 1930s his oloroso won the first of 13 successive Australian Champion awards.