by Roger Davies | Nov 2, 2021 | AQOT, Tours, Vinos
Two of the most recent tours that I have done outside of Seville with my com pany A Question of Taste have been a wine tour to Jerez and Sanlucar de Barrameda and an Iberian ham tour to the Sierra de Aracena. On the wine tour we started with a visit to Lustau where I...
by Roger Davies | May 27, 2021 | AQOT
Yesterday, I went to the Sierra of Aracena for the first time in over 9 months . This is where I take people on my Iberian ham tours. It was great to be back in this wonderful area of natural beauty which in normal times I visit at least 40 times every year. I went...
by Roger Davies | May 24, 2021 | AQOT
The last tour that I ran was on 11 March last year which is a very long time! Thankfully, I have been able to do some work in a friend’s company and have been learning Portuguese to occupy my mind. Well, there is now light at the end of the tunnel and it seems...
by Roger Davies | Feb 4, 2019 | AQOT
In November last year, I spent three days filming with a media group from Hong Kong. One of the days was spent in the Sierra de Aracena area with a visit to an organic Iberian pig farm followed by a visit to a ham-curing factory in Jabugo and then on to lunch in...
by Roger Davies | Apr 12, 2018 | AQOT
Yesterday I took some clients from Thailand on my Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena, a mountainous area to the northwest of Seville. Even though it was 11 April, it was 6ºC when we got to the Iberian pig farm! This is not normal for the month of April. In...
by Roger Davies | Mar 9, 2018 | Tours, Vinos
This week I have run two wine tours to the Ronda area. The first one was on Monday and it was a very wet and windy day. The track from the main road to the first winery had 4 or 5 streams crossing it, something that I had not seen for quite few years. We have had a...
by Roger Davies | Feb 27, 2018 | AQOT, Tours, Vinos
Very shortly I will be adding a new activity to what is offered by A Question of Taste. We will be giving people who visit Seville a chance to attend a cheese tasting. The tasting will be held at a great location that is very close to the centre of the city. In the...
by Roger Davies | Feb 19, 2018 | AQOT, Tours, Vinos
The year has started very well with quite a lot of food and wine tours already. There have been quite a few tapas tours and wine tastings in Seville as well as tours to Jerez de la Frontera, to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, to the Sierra of Grazalema, to Ronda and to the...
by Roger Davies | Nov 29, 2017 | Tours
On Saturday 30th September we made our last winery visit to Adegas Algueira which is within the Ribeira Sacra appelation. However, before going to the winery itself we took a trip on a boat owned by the winery on the river Sil. It was just amazing looking up the...
by Roger Davies | Nov 28, 2017 | Tours
On the third day of winery visits we drove to the Valdeorras appelation which is famous for wines made with the Godello grape which have become popular over the last few years. It’s not as aromatic as the Albariño grape but has good acidity, often with aromas of...
