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. Open-air events, flamenco performances and free sherry tastings run across the historic centre for several days.
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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.
Equipo Navazos releases scarce single-cask sherries under the La Bota series, each a numbered butt bought from a specific solera and bottled unfiltered. Private tasting events in Jerez allow subscribers to taste pre-release samples from different butts across a horizontal comparison session.
A private tasting session at Bodegas Tradicion presenting a vertical of Fino, Amontillado, Palo Cortado and Oloroso all at VORS (30+ years) solera age. The session is conducted in the Pinacoteca gallery surrounded by the Golden Age art collection, making it an immersive cultural and sensory event.
A hands-on workshop teaching the venencia technique: extracting sherry from the barrel with the traditional silver and whalebone tool and pouring into a copita from height without spillage. Conducted at the Consejo Regulador by a practising capataz de 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. The session demonstrates how fining and filtration alter texture, oxidation and aroma, led by the Lustau head winemaker.
Equipo Navazos releases scarce single-cask sherries under the La Bota series, each a numbered butt bought from a specific solera and bottled unfiltered. Private tasting events in Jerez allow subscribers to taste pre-release samples from different butts across a horizontal comparison session.
A private tasting session at Bodegas Tradicion presenting a vertical of Fino, Amontillado, Palo Cortado and Oloroso all at VORS (30+ years) solera age. The session is conducted in the Pinacoteca gallery surrounded by the Golden Age art collection, making it an immersive cultural and sensory event.
The tasting menu at Aponiente functions as an extended sherry pairing experience, with chef Angel Leon's marine courses matched to an expert-selected Jerez DO progression. The full pairing menu is the most structured sherry-with-food experience in the Marco de Jerez.
A hands-on workshop teaching the venencia technique: extracting sherry from the barrel with the traditional silver and whalebone tool and pouring into a copita from height without spillage. Conducted at the Consejo Regulador by a practising capataz de bodega.
