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more sherry research!

03 Monday Jun 2013

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feria de la manzanilla
Hot on the heels of my successful World Sherry Day event I thought I’d try to recreate my own Feria de la Manzanilla here this past weekend, since I couldn’t get to the actual Feria in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (crap bus schedule from Sevilla). But although we ate and drank well that day it didn’t feel as special as my afternoon WSD thing, mostly because the waiters and bar people weren’t really into talking about the wines and suggesting good food parings. Ah well, win some lose some.

I get to win again soon because I was speaking to the brand manager from Gonzalez Byass in Jerez and told him that, inspired by my WSD experience, I wanted to start doing Introduction to Sherry tours but I needed to learn more about sherry. So he promised to give me a private sherry tasting class here in Sevilla, including food pairings. Can’t wait!

Feria de la Manzanilla

loki’s belly-rubbing slave

07 Tuesday May 2013

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belly rubbing slave
After a long Sunday afternoon of serious tapas & wine indulgence, visiting London foodie friend Nicola came back to casa az for – what else? – more wine. It was then and there that Loki turned this unsuspecting “non-cat person” into his belly-rubbing slave. The remotes are for when he wants to control us from a distance. Wouldn’t want him to have to get up…

shed likes food

04 Saturday May 2013

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shed
Just over a couple of years ago I met Nicola Swift @ShedLikesFood on Twitter when she got in touch about taking one of my Sevilla Tapas Tours. It turned out to be a memorable evening as not only is Nicola a true foodie, as well as charming and fun to be with, but I showed up for the tour on crutches. In fact, it was the tour I mentioned in this post. I didn’t know at the time that Nicola and I would stay in touch on Twitter nor that two years later she’d be back, this time with her parents, for a week-long visit in Sevilla. And so of course we had to do another food tour! This time it was the Market & Tapas Tour on Friday, which you can see was a great success. Especially because Nicola actually tried two things she’d never had before – caracoles (small snails) and fried ortigüillas (anenomes). So now the challenge is on for her to eat something “weird” every day she’s here.

Sevilla day one: some new things

Of course I’ll be helping Nicola in this endeavour as much as I can. We’ll be going out for lunch on Sunday and then to the Feria in Jerez on Wednesday (her last day in town). Stay tuned…

a day off

13 Saturday Apr 2013

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tio pepe en rama
So this is what I did on Friday! It was supposed to be a day off but my friend Fiona (aka Scribbler in Seville) asked if I was going to this very cool wine tasting event, which led to us both going there and then going for tapas afterwards, followed by a visit to a pop-up store that was taking place in a lovely boutique hotel, which included having rooftop drinks. After that I met up with Peter and as it was such a beautiful warm evening we just strolled around, eventually stopping for more tapas. I think I do less on working days! How do you like to spend days off?

For more info about this limited edition wine have a look here: Tío Pepe en Rama 2013