>> Sounds like this? > 
>> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggjere01.wav=Jerez
> Eerrr  it looks like pronounced with a strong american accent :-)
> The "j" is too soft, the "r" is not rolled , the second "e" is pronounced 
> as a diphtong but should have only one short sound (monophtong) as in 
> "pet" and the "z" should sound as English "th" as in "truth", not as "s"
> This one is closer (yet the jota is not hard enough)
> http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/pron/J0031700.wav
> It's easy to understand why English had dropped "Jerez" for "Sherry" :-)

The (English) guys on TV seem to pronounce it "hereth"... don't know how 
close that is to what it should be (no sound on this PC).

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