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sherry, manzanilla & montilla

10 Tuesday Sep 2013

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sherry bookI was crushed to find out that I’d missed my chance to sign up for the first Sherry Master course being offered by Gonzalez-Byass in Jerez earlier this month. Well, I knew that I wouldn’t exactly be a true sherry master after a two-day event, but it would have helped with my education in order to get my Introduction to Sherry tours going, and it would have also been a lot of fun.

Then I came across this recently-published book that I’d been hearing about on Twitter by Peter LIem and Jesus Barquín called Sherry, Manzanilla & Montilla. So I read a couple of reviews and decided to order it, thinking it would be a good place to begin a bit of “formal training” in terms of learning more about the world of sherry. It arrived yesterday. Now I just have to find time to read it! Looks like I’m going to be crazy busy most of this month.

Like now. Just home from a morning Market & Tapas Tour and a bit later will be going out on an evening Sevilla Tapas Tour. I think I need to clone myself…

new stuff going on…

17 Saturday Aug 2013

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jerezI’ve been working on a few projects over the past couple of months and the one that seems most likely to happen the soonest is this one – my brand new Introduction to Sherry tours!

You may recall the recent impromptu World Sherry Day event that I created for myself on the fly last May… well, that really turned my head and heart around in terms of how I felt about sherry. And having had that experience I thought I would really like others to have that – or something similar – too.

And so… presenting my Introduction to Sherry tours! Starting in October.

Still a bit of work to be done,  getting the bars sorted and also the food and wine pairings, but I am very excited about this. A simple yet intelligent one-night-only sherry experience. I really want to present this in the same way I would like to experience something like this (same as I do with the tapas tours) though there is still some homework to do…

But it should all be up and running by October.  🙂

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

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