by Roger Davies | Jan 20, 2015 | AQOT
Yesterday, I went to La Rábida which is close to the city of Huelva and about an hour to the west of Seville. This is the place from where Columbus left on his first voyage to the Americas. Anyway, I went to an event organised by the wine company Tierra Nuestra...
by Roger Davies | Oct 24, 2014 | AQOT
Yesterday (23rd October), I visited one of the olive groves and mills where I regularly go with clients. This time, however, I went on my own as I wanted to take some photos and one or two short videos of olives being picked. At the estate they have been picking now...
by Roger Davies | Oct 23, 2014 | AQOT
Anyone who has been in a park in southern Spain or in a bullring will have seen a yellowish ochre sand on the ground, called “albero”. This is something that can also been seen in wineries where sherry is aged. It comes from a detritic limestone that is...
by Roger Davies | Oct 19, 2014 | AQOT
On Friday (17th October), I took a group of 40 people on a tour to Jerez and Sanlúcar de Barrameda. I organised the tour for the Oxford and Cambridge Club of London and was the largest group I have been with for a few years. The day was a resounding success. We went...
by Roger Davies | Oct 14, 2014 | AQOT
On a wine trip that I led to the Ronda area today with a group of people from Singapur, I was surprised to see grapes being brought into the winery, as I thought everything in the area had already been picked and was either undergoing alcoholic or malolactic...
