by Roger Davies | Apr 25, 2013 | AQOT
Due to being out on tours nearly every day for the last 10 days or more I have neglected my blog, which is not good. Anyway, among the many tours that I have been running lately I did my half-day olive oil tour a few days ago and took some photos of the olive trees to...
by Roger Davies | Apr 14, 2013 | AQOT
I was in Jerez three times last week and one of the things that excited me most was getting hold of a bottle of Fino Perdido, a fino sherry (naturally) produced by the company Sánchez Romate. This is a fino that is not sold in Spain! A friend of mine who worked at...
by Roger Davies | Apr 9, 2013 | AQOT
The poet laureate in the United Kingdom is named by the queen on advice of the prime minister. It is an honorary post and the person who holds it is expected to write poems for special state occasions. The post used to be a life tenure but is now for ten years. The...
by Roger Davies | Mar 31, 2013 | AQOT
I was in Sanlúcar de Barrameda leading a tour again yesterday. I had a camera with me that while not being brilliant takes better photos than my mobile phone which I used on my last visit. The first winery we visited was the same one as two weeks ago. Among other...
by Roger Davies | Mar 28, 2013 | AQOT
On Tuesday of this week (26th March) I ran another wine tour to the Ronda area. Over the last month or two we have had a lot of rain and the soil in many areas cannot retain any more water. At the first winery walking around the vineyard was like walking on a sponge....
by Roger Davies | Mar 22, 2013 | AQOT
Today I was out again on another Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena. On the farm we visited today one of the breeding females had already given birth with the rest soon to follow. In the photo below you can see the mother suckling two of the piglets. The sow in...
by Roger Davies | Mar 20, 2013 | AQOT
This morning I went to the Sierra of Aracena to visit an organic Iberian pig farm with the idea of taking groups there in the future. The farm has 14 breeding females with one lucky breeding male. On the farm they generally breed once a year as opposed to twice which...
by Roger Davies | Mar 18, 2013 | AQOT
Today I took some clients to Jerez on a tour and at the first winery that we visited they were adding young fortified wine to the last criadera of the solera system for their fino, the lightest style of sherry produced in Jerez. This can be seen in the photo below;...
by Roger Davies | Mar 17, 2013 | AQOT
Yesterday, I took a group to Sanlúcar de Barrameda on a wine or sherry tour. We started off with a visit to a small producer that was established in 1758 in buildings that had been part of a convent. They specialise in manzanilla (very normal in Sanlúcar) which...
by Roger Davies | Mar 4, 2013 | AQOT
On Saturday I received a copy of the book Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla. A Guide to the Traditional Wines of Andalucia by Peter Liem & Jesús Barquín. A friend from the United States who was coming to Spain brought it for me as it can only be purchased in the...
