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.
Address: Calle Alameda Vieja 5, 11402 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Jerez & Sherry
A limited harvest participation programme at Gonzalez Byass during the September Vendimia, in which guests join the bodega team in the Macharnudo vineyard for the Palomino Fino pick. The day concludes with a must tasting and bodega dinner.
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 limited harvest participation programme at Gonzalez Byass during the September Vendimia, in which guests join the bodega team in the Macharnudo vineyard for the Palomino Fino pick. The day concludes with a must tasting and bodega dinner.
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.
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.
Upgrade your experience by combining a historic center city tour with a visit to one of the most famous wineries in Jerez. Taste three excellent wines at the winery.
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A guided tour of an 1850's winery, the tour includes an audio-visual, history of sherry wine and winemaking. Also wine tasting an exhibition with historical labels
