page_title: John Harvey & Sons
section_title: Bristol Cream and other products
hierarchical_section_title: John Harvey & Sons / Bristol Cream and other products
caption_attribution_description: Harveys Bristol Cream Cap
context_page_description: John Harvey & Sons is a brand of a wine and sherry blending and merchant business started by John Harvey in Bristol, England in 1796. The business within 60 years had blended the first dessert sherry dubbed 'cream' which has changed little since 1880 and is known as Harveys Bristol Cream. The brand was sold to Beam Global in 2010 and then to Grupo Emperador Spain S.A. in 2015, which is owned by Alliance Global Group of the Philippines.
context_section_description: Bristol Cream is a dark, complex amber Sherry that has been blended and bottled in Jerez, Spain since 1796. It was wholly owned by John Harvey & Sons of Bristol until the 21st century acquisition. John Harvey's descendants continued making Bristol cream since the takeover of the company's main brand. Since 2019, it is made and bottled in Spain. Some residual assets or shares of the business such as in vineyards are owned by former board member Joseph Harvey, the youngest of John Harvey's male descendants.
  The bottle label's serving suggestion from the latter part of the 20th century onward is to mix if so wished with two parts British-style lemonade (and optional extras are also mentioned).  The deep amber product is sweet, rich and with a slightly spicy aroma. Harveys Bristol Cream is often enjoyed on its own, chilled or not chilled.
  The business specializes in blending and exporting the fortified wine, sherry. It originally sold a wider mix of Spanish and Portuguese wines and from the early 19th century, specialized in fortified wines which traveled better consistently. During the 1860s and 1880s in the company's cellars, John Harvey and his brother Edward Harvey developed what was dubbed a new type of sherry: cream sherry (in flavour and texture). This became the main product: Harveys Bristol Cream. The blend starts with wines from fifty different soleras, including three sherry types: Fino, Amontillado, and Oloroso. Finally some Pedro Ximénez wine from sun-dried 'raisonified' grapes of the region is blended for sweetness, for the richness or 'creaminess' of aftertaste that is the hallmark of the product.
  Since its inception, it has been generally reviewed as one of the major four types of sherry, although less so in some parts of Spain. The business eventually began buying its own vineyards to invest in fermenting and fortification premises locally and to protect the quality of source material. The business uses its estate vineyards in Jerez Superior and uses all of its Palomino grapes as the main source grape.
  This product has been bottled in Bristol blue glass since 1994 . The brand was sold to Beam Global in 2010 and to Grupo Emperador Spain S.A. in 2015.
caption: The cap of a bottle of Bristol Cream
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