Solera Blending Workshop at Lustau ★ 4.7
A hands-on blending workshop at Bodegas Lustau where participants draw wine from different scales of the criadera and solera system and assemble their own blend.
Bodegas Barbadillo runs a structured comparison session contrasting the seasonal En Rama edition of Solear Manzanilla directly against the year-round filtered version from the same solera.
Address: Calle Luis de Eguilaz 11, 11540 Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain, Jerez & Sherry
A hands-on blending workshop at Bodegas Lustau where participants draw wine from different scales of the criadera and solera system and assemble their own blend.
The annual Jerez harvest festival held in early September centres on the Pisada de la Uva ceremony: barefoot treading of the first Palomino Fino grapes in the traditional lagares at the Gonzalez Byass bodega.
The ancient barefoot grape-treading ritual performed at the Gonzalez Byass bodega at the start of the Vendimia. Participants in traditional Jota costumes tread Palomino Fino grapes in the lagar to produce the first must of the harvest. A highlight of the Jerez sherry calendar and an internationally attended ritual.
A structured educational tasting at Bodegas Lustau comparing En Rama (unfiltered, direct from butt) and standard filtered expressions of the same Fino and Manzanilla solera.
Equipo Navazos releases scarce single-cask sherries under the La Bota series, each a numbered butt bought from a specific solera and bottled unfiltered.
A private tasting session at Bodegas Tradicion presenting a vertical of Fino, Amontillado, Palo Cortado and Oloroso all at VORS (30+ years) solera age.