by Roger Davies | Jan 20, 2015 | AQOT
Yesterday, I went to La Rábida which is close to the city of Huelva and about an hour to the west of Seville. This is the place from where Columbus left on his first voyage to the Americas. Anyway, I went to an event organised by the wine company Tierra Nuestra...
by Roger Davies | Oct 24, 2014 | AQOT
Yesterday (23rd October), I visited one of the olive groves and mills where I regularly go with clients. This time, however, I went on my own as I wanted to take some photos and one or two short videos of olives being picked. At the estate they have been picking now...
by Roger Davies | Oct 23, 2014 | AQOT
Anyone who has been in a park in southern Spain or in a bullring will have seen a yellowish ochre sand on the ground, called “albero”. This is something that can also been seen in wineries where sherry is aged. It comes from a detritic limestone that is...
by Roger Davies | Oct 19, 2014 | AQOT
On Friday (17th October), I took a group of 40 people on a tour to Jerez and Sanlúcar de Barrameda. I organised the tour for the Oxford and Cambridge Club of London and was the largest group I have been with for a few years. The day was a resounding success. We went...
by Roger Davies | Oct 14, 2014 | AQOT
On a wine trip that I led to the Ronda area today with a group of people from Singapur, I was surprised to see grapes being brought into the winery, as I thought everything in the area had already been picked and was either undergoing alcoholic or malolactic...
by Roger Davies | Oct 12, 2014 | AQOT
In my last post, I talked about the porcini mushrooms that we ate in the Sierra of Aracena whilst on an Iberian ham tour. Well, yesterday (11th October) on a tour that I led we ate one of the most prized mushrooms, Amanita caesarea, known locally as “tana”...
by Roger Davies | Sep 30, 2014 | AQOT
Yesterday, I was on another Iberian ham tour, which I think was the sixth this month. Anyway, after the rain we have been having, wild mushrooms are starting to appear. In the first photo below you can see some Boletus Edulis, known locally as “tentullo”...
by Roger Davies | Sep 24, 2014 | AQOT
Last Sunday (21st October) I accompanied a group of 5 American ladies to the Sierra of Aracena where we visited an Iberian pig farm and then a ham curing factory in Jabugo. We then went on to the town of Aracena where we had a fantastic lunch. The first photo below...
by Roger Davies | Sep 23, 2014 | AQOT
At midday last Saturday (20th September) I organised a wine tasting lunch for a group of 8 Norwegians. They requested a tasting of Spanish reds with a sweet wine with the dessert. We tasted two Tempranillo based wines along with wines that were 100% Garnacha...
by Roger Davies | Sep 22, 2014 | AQOT
Last Friday I did a tour that combined a visit to an olive mill, a visit to a cheese producer and a very fine lunch. In the Sierra de Grazalema in the province of Cadiz they produce some very fine cheese from both sheep and goats’ milk. The sheep in the...
