Within the Gonzalez Byass bodega, an interpretive exhibit covers the foundation of the house in 1835, the relationship between Robert Blake Byass and Manuel Maria Gonzalez, historic barrels inscribed by visiting royalty and celebrities, and the 19th-century colonial sherry trade routes. Integrated into the bodega tour.
Address: Calle Manuel Maria Gonzalez 12, 11403 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Jerez & Sherry
The private art collection of Bodegas Tradicion forms a museum-grade gallery within the bodega, containing works attributed to Velazquez, Goya, El Greco, Zurbaran and other Golden Age Spanish masters. Access is exclusively through the bodega tour, making it the only sherry-and-masterworks experience in Spain.
The Consejo Regulador del Vino de Jerez maintains a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jerez DO, including traditional cooperage tools, venencia and solera equipment, historic bottles and documentation of the evolution of sherry styles from the 15th century to the present.
Inside the Williams and Humbert bodega, a collection of historic Dry Sack advertising materials, Victorian-era sherry trade ephemera and original coopers' tools from the 19th-century bodega operation. The collection is presented as part of the standard bodega tour.
The Sanlucar museum contains a wine and viticulture section tracing Manzanilla production history from Phoenician amphorae finds on the Guadalquivir estuary through the medieval period to the 19th-century Manzanilla boom. Physical artefacts include Roman grape-pressing stones and historic cooperage tools.
The private art collection of Bodegas Tradicion forms a museum-grade gallery within the bodega, containing works attributed to Velazquez, Goya, El Greco, Zurbaran and other Golden Age Spanish masters. Access is exclusively through the bodega tour, making it the only sherry-and-masterworks experience in Spain.
The Consejo Regulador del Vino de Jerez maintains a permanent exhibition on the history of the Jerez DO, including traditional cooperage tools, venencia and solera equipment, historic bottles and documentation of the evolution of sherry styles from the 15th century to the present.
