or **JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA**, a city of Spain, Andalucia, near the right bank of the Guadalente, 12 miles N.N.E. of Cadiz. It is situated in the lap of two rounded hillocks, which shelter it to the E. and the W.; and it covers a considerable extent of ground. The city, properly so called, is embraced by an old crenated Moorish wall, which, though enclosing a labyrinth of narrow, ill built, and worse drained streets, is of no great circuit, and is so intermixed with the suburbs as to be visible only here and there. The limits of the old town are however well defined by a number of antique gateways. Some of the buildings are of a unique kind of architecture. It has an old castle, eight churches, one of which is collegiate, and four hospitals. The environs afford abundant supplies of XIMENES corn, especially wheat, of oil, and of cattle. It was long celebrated for its breed of horses, reared by a well endowed convent of Carthusian monks, now robbed and deserted; but the chief produce is the white wine so generally known by the name of Sherry. This wine is collected by the merchants of the city from the neighbouring vineyards; but some of them are also wine-growers. The quantity annually produced is about 30,000 butts, of 108 gallons each. Of these, more than two-thirds are sent to England. There is always on hand a large stock of old wines, which are mixed with the new in such a proportion as to suit the various markets. The storehouses are above ground, and are vast piles of building, having lofty roofs supported on arches; their walls are pierced with numerous windows, and thus admit a free circulation of air. Some of these storehouses are so large as to be capable of containing 4000 butts. The oldest wines are kept in huge casks, little inferior to the celebrated tun of Heidelberg, and some of them have wine nominally 120 years old; but the quantity withdrawn is every year supplied from casks of a later growth; and when wine is mixed for shipping, a small portion of the oldest is mingled with the new. Much brandy is mixed with all the wine for exportation, and the merchants are commonly the distillers. Pop. 34,988.