Visit to Sanlúcar de Barrameda

The last tour that I ran was on 11 March last year which is a very long time! Thankfully, I have been able to do some work in a friend’s company and have been learning Portuguese to occupy my mind. Well, there is now light at the end of the tunnel and it seems...

Short programme on iberico ham.

In November last year, I spent three days filming with a media group from Hong Kong. One of the days was spent in the Sierra de Aracena area with a visit to an organic Iberian pig farm followed by a visit to a ham-curing factory in Jabugo and then on to lunch in...

Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena

Yesterday I took some clients from Thailand on my Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena, a mountainous area to the northwest of Seville. Even though it was 11 April, it was 6ºC when we got to the Iberian pig farm! This is not normal for the month of April. In...
Cheese tasting in Seville

Cheese tasting in Seville

Very shortly I will be adding a new activity to what is offered by A Question of Taste. We will be giving people who visit Seville a chance to attend a cheese tasting. The tasting will be held at a great location that is very close to the centre of the city. In the...
Food and wine tours Seville 2018

Food and wine tours Seville 2018

The year has started very well with quite a lot of food and wine tours already. There have been quite a few tapas tours and wine tastings in Seville as well as tours to Jerez de la Frontera, to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, to the Sierra of Grazalema, to Ronda and to the...
A Week in San Sebastian Part 4

A Week in San Sebastian Part 4

Another of our one-day tours was to the Rioja wine region. This is Spain’s most famous area for red wine with the Tempranillo grape being the most widely planted variety. The other principal red grapes are Garnache, Mazuelo or Carignan, and Graciano. We visited...