Fortified wine is a wine to which a distilled spirit, usually brandy, is added. Many different styles of fortified wine have been developed, including Port, Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, Commandaria wine, and the aromatized wine Vermouth.herry is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez, Spain. The word sherry is an anglicization of Jerez. In earlier times, sherry was known as sack (from the Spanish saca, meaning a removal from the solera ).