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sherry & tapas

19 Saturday Apr 2014

Posted by azahar in food & drink, sevilla, tapas, tapas tours

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sevilla, sherry, spain, tapas, tapas tours

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My first Introduction to Sherry Tour was a success! Except for that bit after when I fell down. Can’t even blame the wine as I’d only had two glasses! But my clients got to sample 7 different sherries paired with various tapas, from cheeses and charcuterie to hot dishes and finishing up with cheese and dessert.
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Kathleen and Sam were perfect victims guests and asked lots of questions. I was a bit sneaky and didn’t tell them they were my first Sherry & Tapas tour. Happily I was able to answer all their questions and give them lots of information about the wines and the sherry making process. But most importantly they were able to sample the wines the way they are meant to be enjoyed… little by little, with food and friends.

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You may recall that I got the idea for this tour when I inadvertently did my own World Sherry Day event last year after missing my train to Jerez that morning, where I’d been invited to attend an event. In the end it turned out for the best because that’s when I realised that sherry is best experienced with food and I wanted to share that experience with other people. Looking forward to future Sherry & Tapas tours now. Even though I still have a lot to learn, for now I know enough to help people learn about and enjoy sherry. And I’m very happy to report that Kathleen and Sam are new sherry converts!

to the rescue…

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by azahar in blogging, friends

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heavy artillery
Back in January I offered to help my friend Fiona @Seville_Writer move her blog from WP.com to self-hosting using WP.org. No problem. Have done it for myself and also for a few clients. Easy Peasy. Except… it wasn’t. After a few frustrating hours we gave up and planned to get back on the case once I got back from Barcelona. Which ended up not being until today!

I don’t even want to go into detail about WHAT WENT WRONG (prefer not to relive it). In the end it turned out to be something (well, a couple of somethings) relatively simple, but ones that were only and finally resolved by my friend David @IrlandesnMalaga, amazingly helpful and wonderfully patient guy that he is. Half-way through our ordeal today I opened up this fabulous bottle of fino that I was given by the owner of the bodega at a sherry tasting last month. It helped. But mostly David helped.

So between me, David and Carmen, Fiona has a new self-hosted blog!

perks

15 Saturday Mar 2014

Posted by azahar in books, sevilla, wine

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books, gutierrez colosia, sherry, wines

perksLook at the lovely gifts I received after Friday’s Gutiérrez Colosia sherry tasting.
Muchísimas gracias Carmen and Chelsea!

finos palmas 2013

21 Thursday Nov 2013

Posted by azahar in wine, work

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finos palmas, sherry, wine

finos palmas
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.

Finos Palmas 2013 LiveStreaming from 19.00h

…and even more sherry!

31 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by azahar in sevilla, spain, tapas, wine, work

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tapas jerez

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.

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