by Roger Davies | May 17, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, we left Burgos and headed for the Rioja wine region. We started with a visit to Bodegas Miguel Merino. This is a small winery situated in the town of Briones. The winery sources grapes from the 11.5 Ha that belong to them. This means that production is...
by Roger Davies | May 17, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, we spent the whole day in Burgos. My clients went on a private guided tour with a local guide, Carlota, who they said was marvellous. They spent most of their time in the wonderful gothic cathedral. For lunch we went on a tapas crawl of some great bars not...
by Roger Davies | May 15, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday we left Segovia and headed first to the Ribera del Duero wine region where we stopped at two wineries, both of which were founded in the early 1990s. Our first stop was at Bodegas Vizcarra where the owner and winemaker Juan Carlos Vizcarra showed us around....
by Roger Davies | May 14, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, it rained for most of the time. In the morning, I organised a guided tour of Segovia for my clients with a great local guide, Elena. We then headed off to the medieval village of Pedraza which looks as if it hasn’t changed much over the last 400 years...
by Roger Davies | May 13, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, I started a 12 day wine tour in the north of Spain with two previous clients of mine and two of their friends. Leaving Madrid we stopped off at El Escorial, the enourmous palace, monastery, mausoleum that was constructed by the Spanish king Felipe II. Its...
by Roger Davies | May 6, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday I took some people on my half-day olive oil tour. For an olive oil producer May is a critical month. This is when the olive tree flowers and olives start to form. If the weather conditions are adverse the olive crop can be drastically reduced. The last two...
by Roger Davies | May 3, 2016 | AQOT
The group that went on the Iberian ham tour with me that I commented on in my last post also went with me to Jerez. Below are some photos that I took at the two wineries that we went to. We had a tapas style lunch at the second one. It goes without saying that...
by Roger Davies | Apr 27, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, I ran another Iberian ham tour to the Sierra of Aracena. We had a superb sunny day with the countryside looking wonderful after the heavy rains last week. We spent around 5 hours on the organic Iberian pig farm that I have written about before. We went...
by Roger Davies | Apr 18, 2016 | AQOT
One of the tours that I ran last week was our cheese tour. Unfortunately, it was raining a lot of the time so we could not walk to the farm to see the goats being milked. So instead, we stopped off at an olive mill before going on to the see the cheese being made....
by Roger Davies | Apr 10, 2016 | AQOT
I must apologise for the delay in writing about the second part of my trip to the north of Spain; work has been hectic and I have not had time to sit down for more than 5 minutes. Anyway, on Friday 1 April we went to San Sebastian which as you may know is a wonderful...
