by Roger Davies | Nov 21, 2010 | AQOT
Last week I visited olive oil mills with clients on three occasions. At one of the mills they had been making oil for about a week; the first olive oil is produced in the south of Spain in early November. A lot of the olives at this time are still green or just...
by Roger Davies | Oct 27, 2010 | AQOT
Last Saturday (October 23rd), I spent the evening with the well-known British chef Rick Stein and the production team who are filming a series with him which will be called Hidden Spain. The series will be shown on the BBC sometime during the spring next year.I...
by Roger Davies | Oct 23, 2010 | AQOT
Last Thursday (21st October), I ran a wine tour to the Ronda area, a place that I have written about in previous blog entries. In the first winery that we visited, they had picked the last of their grapes on the previous Friday. The first photograph below shows some...
by Roger Davies | Sep 24, 2010 | AQOT
Well, it’s been a while since I last wrote anything; so much for my good intentions of posting regularly. Let’s hope that I can change this over the next few months. I have, thankfully, been very busy recently with lots of tours, tastings and cooking...
by Roger Davies | Jun 18, 2010 | AQOT
I took some clients on a wine tour on Wednesday (June 16th) to the Ronda area. Remembering to take my camera along I took some photos of the vines to show the differences in the development of different grape varieties. The first photograph is of Merlot grapes. This...