by Roger Davies | Feb 24, 2017 | Tours
Yesterday, I took a group of British people on my Iberian/iberico ham tour. At the farm we visited most of the pigs that are destined for hams this year have gone on their final journey! There was a group left though that will leave the farm next Wednesday. Some of...
by Roger Davies | Feb 2, 2017 | Vinos
I get the chance to drink some really good wines and two that I have enjoyed recently are a rare vintage dated manzanilla, Manzanilla de Añada 2012 from Bodegas Callejuela and Viña Real Gran Reserva 2001. The manzanilla has not passed through the solera system and is...
by Roger Davies | Jan 9, 2017 | AQOT
2017 has started well as I have already run a number of tours. Also, with the bookings that I already have it looks as if it will be a very good year. One of the tours that I ran a few days ago was my half-day olive oil tour, which happens to be one of the most...
by Roger Davies | Nov 29, 2016 | AQOT
A few days ago I ran my Iberian ham tour. This is the time of year that the Iberian pìgs that will produce the best hams are released onto large tracts of land to gorge on acorns. In Spanish this period is known as the “montanera” and lasts 3 – 4...
by Roger Davies | Oct 30, 2016 | AQOT
On Friday I spent a few hours at one of the olive mills that I visit observing the picking and processing of olives to produce high quality extra virgin olive oil. The firist photo below shows oilves being picked using electric combs. This is one of the best ways of...
by Roger Davies | Sep 25, 2016 | AQOT
One of the tours that I did this week combined a morning olive oil tour and a tapas tour at lunchtime. At the mill that we visited it is only a matter of a few weeks before they start making olive oil. This year it seems there will be a good crop of olives with the...
by Roger Davies | Sep 18, 2016 | AQOT
Earlier this week I spent three days with a fantastic group of four Australians, two of whom had been with me in 2012. I took them on a tapas tour, on my Iberian ham tour and a tour with a visit to an olive mill and to a winery where we had lunch. The first photo...
by Roger Davies | Sep 4, 2016 | AQOT
On one of the tours that I ran this week was to Ronda. It was with a group of four fantastic women from Australia who were great fun. We are now at the time of year when grape picking starts in the Ronda area. In fact at the two wineries that we visited the first...
by Roger Davies | Aug 26, 2016 | AQOT
Earlier this week I ran a wine tour to the Arcos de la Frontera area. Arcos is one of the famed white villages and is very spectacular with the old part of the town atop a sandstone ridge with towering vertical cliffs. I was with a group of wonderful Australians who...
by Roger Davies | Jul 15, 2016 | AQOT
Every year in the summer I try to do a course at the Pablo de Olavide University. They run their summer courses in the town of Carmona in a wondeful old palace. The course has to have something to do with my work, so this year it was the wines from the Demoninación de...
