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15 Saturday Mar 2014
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Look at the lovely gifts I received after Friday’s Gutiérrez Colosia sherry tasting.want!
04 Tuesday Mar 2014
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In spite of the fact that having this really super cool wine cellar with plexiglass cover would mean my wine cellar would actually be in my downstairs neighbour’s apartment… I still want it! Discovered this the other night in a bar while on a tapas tour. Isn’t it fabulous?
finos palmas 2013
21 Thursday Nov 2013
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What a day. Went to get my chemo port cleaned out this morning and for the second month running they’ve had trouble with “blockage”, which apparently I’m not supposed to worry about. Hmmmm…
This was followed by a midday wine tasting that I was invited to (just 15 guests) for Colonias de Galeón and, after a short rest at home, I am now heading out to taste these babies… limited edition old finos from Gonzalez Byass. You can read more about the tasting on my azahar Sevilla blog: Finos Palmas 2013.
And if you like you can follow it live streaming at 7 pm Spanish time.
…and even more sherry!
31 Thursday Oct 2013
So there is this tapas & sherry pairing event going on in Sevilla, from the 1st – 17th of November, during which 62 bars will offer a select tapa paired with a sherry or manzanilla wine. And I am totally ON THIS. Of course visiting 62 bars in just over two weeks is only slightly impossible so it’s a good thing at least a dozen of the bars on the list aren’t places I’m interested in. And to ease both the wallet and liver, Peter is helping me out. This means that we go to each bar and share both the tapa and the sherry, so – for example – we can visit four places and end up having just 2 drinks and 2 tapas but 4 different experiences and can judge which pairings work best at more places.
You can follow all the action on azahar’s Sevilla blog and also on my Instagram.
copa jerez prize!
24 Thursday Oct 2013
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So remember when I went to the Copa Jerez (Sherry Cup) last week? Well, there was also a Twitter competition that day, with the Sherry Academy saying that whoever tweeted the most using the “official hashtags” could win a prize. Well, you know me. I tweet the shit outta everything when I’m at an event. And so I won this! I hardly know where to begin. Though I think I might actually host a sherry-pairing dinner party…
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