Clams with Manzanilla

The Spanish love their ‘almejas’, clams, in rice dishes, stews or simply steamed open with sherry or white wine. In this recipe we use manzanilla sherry from Sanlúcar de Barrameda. It is a dry sherry with a slightly salty tang, perfect with fish and shellfish. We often serve a glass of chilled manzanilla to drink alongside the clams as the Spanish do.