Venetian traders lost their supply of sweet wine from Cyprus, Greece, Romania and Hungary to the emerging Ottoman Empire, and centuries later this drink fell out of fashion in emerging markets like the United States, Japan and Australia at the end of the 20th century. Which fortified wine's history is being described?

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History of Sherry. Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes grown around Jerez in southern Spain, aged in a distinctive solera system. Its centuries of trade history saw supply shocks as far back as the Ottoman conquest of the eastern Mediterranean, and it slipped out of fashion in the United States and other new markets toward the end of the 20th century.