by Roger Davies | Jun 7, 2010 | AQOT
It has been quite a while since I added anything to this blog and there are no excuses for my lack of regularity in my postings. It is true to say, however, that over the last few months I have not really had much time to reflect on what I have been doing. Things have...
by Roger Davies | Mar 14, 2010 | AQOT
This last week, I have spent 5 days (9th-14th March) with a group of 16 people who were mainly students and staff from a culinary school in the United States. This blog entry is a small summary of what we did, which will hopefully give people a taste (no pun...
by Roger Davies | Feb 24, 2010 | AQOT
Well, here in Seville it has just kept on raining. I mentioned in a previous blog that it had not rained so much in over fifty years and that was on 11th January; it’s now almost the end of February! We are off to Lisbon on Friday for a few days and were hoping...
by Roger Davies | Jan 20, 2010 | AQOT
Over the Christmas period I did a lot of tapas tours in Seville. One of my clients on one of the tours, Bob Lape, has a daily presentation on a New York radio station, called “Bob Lape’s Dining Diary”. He was kind enough to feature our tapas tour on...
by Roger Davies | Jan 11, 2010 | AQOT
We are now well into January and here in Seville we have been having one of the wettest periods for over 50 years. It even snowed here yesterday for the first time since 1954! Unfortunately, the snow didn’t stick. Below is a photo of yours truly in the garden...
by Roger Davies | Nov 27, 2009 | AQOT
Last night I had the privilege of attending a tasting in Seville of wines made by the fabled winery Vega Sicilia. Vega Sicilia is Spain’s answer to a first-growth Bordeaux, with its older vintages fetching very high prices at auction. The tasting took place in...
by Roger Davies | Oct 29, 2009 | AQOT
Since last writing on this blog I have been very busy, running lots of our one-day tours, organising cooking classes with chef Willy Moya, and taking people on tapas tours around Seville. I have also spent 4 days with someone from a British production company who are...
by Roger Davies | Sep 25, 2009 | AQOT
It’s been over two months since I last added anything to this blog, which is very bad. I will try and be more frequent in my writing in the future.Recently I have been to the Ronda area quite a few times with clients, visiting some of the great boutique wineries...
by Roger Davies | Jul 7, 2009 | AQOT
On Monday of last week (June 29th) I had the privilege of attending a superb vertical wine tasting in which all the Roda 1 wines that have been released on the market were tasted. Roda 1 has established itself over the last decade or so as one of the top Rioja wines...
by Roger Davies | Jun 9, 2009 | AQOT
I took a few photos on a trip with some clients to Jerez last week. In the first photo we are about to start a wine, brandy and sherry vinegar tasting in the first winery that we visitedThe second photo below was at a boutique winery where we were shown around by the...
