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What does "pale" in "pale dry sherry mean"?

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I'm guessing that "pale" doesn't refer to color, because many sherries are already pale yellow?

In Chinese cooking, rice wine is often used as a seasoning to cover up certain unwanted flavors, like fishiness from seafood. Shaoxing wine, from Zhejiang Province, is a famous high-quality rice wine used for both cooking and drinking. Chinese rice wines sold for cooking are available in Chinese grocery stores. Chinese cooking wines are salted so don't use them as a table wine. An excellent, and often used, substitute is pale dry sherry.

Helen's Asian Kitchen: Easy Chinese Stir-Fries p. 18. Her similar post online.

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No, it refers to the colour. By no means all sherries are pale yellow, and a Pedro Ximénez would not be a suitable substitute at all.

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