08 Saturday Oct 2016
Posted in food & drink, friends, gastronomy, sevilla, sherry, wine
I first met Charlie & Sam @vinoveroleigh in London last August, when I was invited to a rooftop dinner at our mutual friend Oli’s place. So I was delighted to hear that they were going to Jerez for a few days and would be stopping by Sevilla on their way home. Being sherry lovers, well, I guess this was inevitable…
Check out their great wine shop here… Vino Vero
25 Wednesday May 2016
Posted in food & drink, sevilla, sherry, tapas, wine
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bodeguita romero, fino, sevilla, sherry, tapas, wine, wine wednesday
Wine Wednesday. The perfect day to pop over to Bodeguita Romero for a free tasting of Tío Mateo fino from Bodegas Marqués de Real Tesoro (now part of Grupo Estevez). Well, any excuse really…
Bodeguita Romero has one of the most interesting sherry lists in town, thanks to Alejandro Romero. And also some of the best tapas… 
23 Monday May 2016
Posted in food & drink, gastronomy, sevilla
It started off as a typical Monday… working on the websites, answering emails, going out for a haircut, a bit of shopping. Then came the message late afternoon… “Are you going to the jamón and wine event?”. Well, up until then I wasn’t but how could I refuse? 15 Bellotas vs 15 Botellas. I did my best…
13 Friday May 2016
After two solid weeks of rain, the sun should finally be back tomorrow. Until then I’ll enjoy these last drops of Andalusian sunshine (aka Tío Pepe).
Missing a few wine meme days. So far there’s #finofriday #manzanillamonday #winewednesday #thirstythursday… any more I don’t yet know about?
10 Tuesday May 2016
I set off on Monday afternoon to meet up with my friend Anna Mayer for a tapita. She had just arrived in town for a short stay and I hadn’t seen her in ages. So we started off with a vermouth cocktail at Palabra de Bar, near my house. But I should have known by that mischievous look on Anna’s face that the day would take a turn or three.
After our lovely vermouth cocktails we were walking towards the centre of town and the skies suddenly opened. We ended up taking shelter at Casa Antonio Los Caracoles. As Anna pointed out – it was destiny! Snails are now in season and there is no better place in town to try them.
But since women can’t live on snails alone, we ordered a few other tapitas. Which we needed to fortify ourselves because…
…just before we met up, Anna had been invited to a Rías Baixas wine tasting event at the Hotel Alfonso XIII and this ended up including me. Thrilled! So after our hearty tapas lunch we headed over to the event.
Here’s Anna and I seriously tasting seriously lovely wines. But I should’ve either sat closer or brought my glasses because I couldn’t read the powerpoint thingy.
Long story short…. after the wine tasting there was a “salon de vinos” with I don’t remember how many bodegas offering their delicious wines and then one thing led to another. By this time Anna had gone home, and I stayed on with other friends, going out for tapas later on, and even later rolling home around 1 am (!!), about twelve hours after I’d left the house. I blame Anna. 😉
casa azahar 