by Roger Davies | May 17, 2011 | AQOT
At the end of last week, I took a journalist and photographer from Hong Kong to the Sierra of Aracena. The journalist, whose name is Ivy Ngan, is the travel editor for Next , Hong Kong’s most widely circulated general interest magazine. She is writing an article...
by Roger Davies | May 10, 2011 | AQOT
At the end of last week I ran a wine tour to the Ronda area and took some photos of the vines in one of the vineyards. You can see the bunches of grapes that are startin got form, although they are still quite small at the moment. The first photo is of Merlot grapes...
by Roger Davies | Apr 14, 2011 | AQOT
Last week I ran several tours to the Sierra of Aracena. The main theme of this tour is the Iberian pig and the wonderful acorn-fed Iberian ham that comes from it. After the rain we had over the autumn and winter the coutryside is looking fantastic at the moment. Below...
by Roger Davies | Jan 31, 2011 | AQOT
On Friday of last week I went to the towns of Cazalla de la Sierra and Constantina, both situated in the Sierra or mountainous region in the north of the province of Seville. My reason for going to them was to visit a few of the distilleries that continue to produce...
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...
