by Roger Davies | May 21, 2009 | AQOT
As promised in my last blog entry, I am going to add some recent photographs of tours that I have run. Last Friday (May 15th) I ran an olive oil tour to the Sierra of Grazalema, so above you can see my clients tasting some high quality extra virigin olive oils, Below...
by Roger Davies | May 7, 2009 | AQOT
My promise to write more entries in this blog have not been kept. This comes of having had too much work in April and the start of this month! Since writing last I have run all of the one days tours we offer at least once, with some being run four or five times. I...
by Roger Davies | Apr 3, 2009 | AQOT
Things have been pretty hectic over the last few weeks with, unfortunately, very little time to sit down and write things for this blog. There have been days when I have left home at 8 in the morning and arrived back again at midnight with a tapas tour or wine tasting...
by Roger Davies | Mar 20, 2009 | AQOT
Thankfully, I have been quite busy over the last few weeks and will be even busier next week. I have run excursions to Jerez, to the Sierra of Aracena and to the Sierra of Grazalema. That means I have been exposing clients to great sherries, excellent Iberian ham and...
by Roger Davies | Mar 3, 2009 | AQOT
Well, it’s been a while since my last entry. I’ve been concentrating on getting clients and organising tours for later in the year. However, I will try to do some more writing this month.Today I am going to write about two splendid cheeses which come from...
by Roger Davies | Feb 9, 2009 | AQOT
Let me digress from the title of this entry for a moment by dwelling on a very good sporting weekend. I follow the Spanish football team Betis and am an avid fan of Welsh rugby. On Saturday Betis beat arch-rivals Seville in the local derby played in Seville’s...
by Roger Davies | Jan 28, 2009 | AQOT
The Condado de Huelva is a Denominación de Origen (D.O.) for wine and vinegar. D.O.’s have their own governing bodies which are there to regulate, in the case of wine, things like the grape varieties that are permitted, maximum yields, ageing methods and so...
by Roger Davies | Jan 22, 2009 | AQOT
One effect of the economic crisis has been a lowering of our family budget for purchasing wine. This means we are drinking a lot more 4-8 euro wines than in the past. Over the last few years I have not always been impressed with the crianza wines from the Rioja region...
by Roger Davies | Jan 21, 2009 | AQOT
Well, I have finally decided that it’s time to start writing a blog. First of all, I think I should say a little about myself and my company. My name is Roger Davies and I am orginally from the town of Abergavenny in Wales, UK. However, I have been living and...
