by Roger Davies | Dec 9, 2012 | AQOT
Last week I did two wine tours to the Ronda area which coincided with a pretty cold spell. The photo below which was taken from the centre of Ronda shows the Sierra de las Nieves with a smattering of snow near the summit. wine tours to...
by Roger Davies | Nov 26, 2012 | AQOT
Last week I realised that I didn’t have a blog entry about the cooking classes we offer. So, as we had a class last Saturday (24th November) I thought I would put amends to this situation. I have been working with local chef Willy Moya for around 9 years and the...
by Roger Davies | Nov 23, 2012 | AQOT
Yesterday (22 November), I took some people on my Iberian or iberico ham tour. The months of October and November are when the free-range Iberian pigs start eating acorns which they root around for among the holm oaks and cork oaks. The idea is that the pigs gain 50...
by Roger Davies | Nov 16, 2012 | AQOT
Over the last ten years I must have done hundreds of tapas tours in Seville and have posted very little about them on this blog. Seville has an incredible amount of tapas bars, probably more per capita than anywhere else in Spain. The whole culture of tapas comes from...
by Roger Davies | Nov 6, 2012 | AQOT
I received a text message yesterday morning from the olive mill that is near to Seville saying that they would be making olive oil that afternoon after a hiatus of 9 days. On arriving at the mill just before 5 p.m., they were just finishing picking olives. The photo...
by Roger Davies | Nov 2, 2012 | AQOT
Unfortunately, I have not been able to follow up the blog entry on the olive harvest with another entry on the olive oil extraction process. When I have been able to go to the mill the weather has meant that no olive oil was being produced. Hopefully, I will be able...
by Roger Davies | Oct 23, 2012 | AQOT
Yesterday morning I was back at the olive oil mill I blogged about at the end of last week. It had been raining and was still drizzling when we got there. This meant, unfortunately, that they were not harvesting olives or processing them to make oil. I wanted to...
by Roger Davies | Oct 19, 2012 | AQOT
Yesterday morning I took some clients to visit the olive mill that I go to that is about 30 kilometres from Seville. The mill produces an average of around 30,000 litres of extra virgin olive oil every year. The oil they produce is of an exceptionally high quality and...
by Roger Davies | Oct 15, 2012 | AQOT
At the moment, I am reading a fascinating book called Taste Buds and Molecules written by François Chartier, a French Canadian. The book looks at food and wine pairing from a scientific angle. Different foods, herbs, spices and wines have their aromatic or flavour...
by Roger Davies | Sep 27, 2012 | AQOT
I just noticed that it was April when I last posted an entry on my blog; not good. Anyway, let’s see if I can be a bit more frequent in my postings. One of the tours I did last week was to a few wineries in the Ronda area. Due to the dry weather we have...
