The Amontillado, of course, never really existed. Amontillado is a pale dry sherry made in Montilla, a town in southern Spain. ... Yes, amontillado is a wine. It is a kind of sherry.

Does the Amontillado really exist in The Cask of Amontillado?

Of course, the cask of Amontillado does not really exist. Montresor invented it to lure Fortunato to his death in the catacombs.

Is Amontillado a real wine?

Amontillado is a unique wine produced from the complete fermentation of palomino grape must. The fruit of the fusion of two different types of ageing processes (both biological and oxidative), Amontillado is resultingly an extraordinarily complex and interesting sherry.