by Roger Davies | May 6, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday I took some people on my half-day olive oil tour. For an olive oil producer May is a critical month. This is when the olive tree flowers and olives start to form. If the weather conditions are adverse the olive crop can be drastically reduced. The last two...
by Roger Davies | May 3, 2016 | AQOT
The group that went on the Iberian ham tour with me that I commented on in my last post also went with me to Jerez. Below are some photos that I took at the two wineries that we went to. We had a tapas style lunch at the second one. It goes without saying that...
by Roger Davies | Apr 27, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, I ran another Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena. We had a superb sunny day with the countryside looking wonderful after the heavy rains last week. We spent around 5 hours on the organic Iberian pig farm that I have written about before. We went...
by Roger Davies | Apr 18, 2016 | AQOT
One of the tours that I ran last week was our cheese tour. Unfortunately, it was raining a lot of the time so we could not walk to the farm to see the goats being milked. So instead, we stopped off at an olive mill before going on to the see the cheese being made....
by Roger Davies | Apr 10, 2016 | AQOT
I must apologise for the delay in writing about the second part of my trip to the north of Spain; work has been hectic and I have not had time to sit down for more than 5 minutes. Anyway, on Friday 1 April we went to San Sebastian which as you may know is a wonderful...
by Roger Davies | Apr 5, 2016 | AQOT
Last week on Wednesday evening I flew to Bilbao to run a 3-day food and wine tour for a group of 5 people from Hong Kong. This was to be the third tour they were doing with me. The first two had been in the south and now is was time to explore another part of the...
