Combining the only 30-year-minimum solera in Jerez with a private art collection of Golden Age Spanish masters, Tradicion's tour is unique in the Marco de Jerez. The VORS tasting follows a guided walk through the Pinacoteca, featuring works attributed to Velazquez, Goya and El Greco.
Address: Calle Cordobeses 3, 11403 Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, Jerez & Sherry
A full-day guided tour visiting one bodega in each corner of the Jerez-Xeres-Sherry triangle: Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Sanlucar de Barrameda. Participants taste the regional variation between Fino, Manzanilla and El Puerto styles as a structured comparison.
Lustau's tour introduces the almacenista system: independent small-scale sherry makers who mature sherry in private soleras and sell their stock to larger bodegas. Visitors taste the single-cask almacenista releases that represent the most terroir-driven sherries available.
A guided tour of the Hidalgo family bodega exploring the flor biology that makes Manzanilla different from Fino. The tour covers the seaside microclimate of Sanlucar, the albariza vineyard blocks and a comparison tasting of Manzanilla from different solera ages.
A full-day guided tour visiting one bodega in each corner of the Jerez-Xeres-Sherry triangle: Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Sanlucar de Barrameda. Participants taste the regional variation between Fino, Manzanilla and El Puerto styles as a structured comparison.
Bodegas Barbadillo occupies part of the 14th-century Castle of Santiago in Sanlucar. The tour covers the castle's Moorish history, the Barbadillo Manzanilla solera and a tasting of Solear Manzanilla alongside Castillo de San Diego Palomino white wine.
Williams and Humbert's vast Jerez bodega is one of the largest in the appellation. The guided tour takes in the 14,000 square metre cathedral cellar, explains the Dos Cortados and Dry Sack brand history, and concludes with a Gran Duque de Alba brandy tasting.
Osborne's El Puerto cellar tour explores the largest private wine cellar complex in Spain. The tour covers the oxidative ageing process and the famous Veterano and Magno Brandy de Jerez production, with a tasting flight combining sherry and brandy.
