International Sherry Week is coming early this year. The global celebration will be from 8 to 14 October which gives us something to look forward to a little sooner after our summer holidays. Event registrations are already...
Regular readers will know I’ve been extremely quiet in 2017. My last post was in February 2017 and, although I’ve been active on Instagram and Twitter, my silence on the blog has been bothering me deeply....
Exciting news from Bodegas Urium this weekend. Less than ten years after launching their Jerez bodega, they have bought an historic bodega in Sanlúcar and plan to become manzanilleros too. The bodega is the...
It’s always good to get the family over for Sunday lunch, so this weekend I gathered together three generations of the same family – the last three years’ releases of Tio Pepe En Rama....
Once in a while you get the chance to meet someone doing something really special, but often you don’t realise how special until much later. That’s what happened to us when we met the Compañía de Vinos...
2016 was a little bit crazy here at Casa Criadera. Our importing business, Sherry Boutique, took off faster than we expected and we also launched an online store. Long days, weekend working and tech...
It just wouldn’t be Christmas in Casa Criadera without the Sherry Advent Calendar! 2016 sees our fourth year of the calendar, so we are having a different focus this year: every day from 1 to 24...
It may be the start of winter, but I never need much persuading to pour a glass or two of ice cold Manzanilla and dream that it’s summer once again. So, as I nurse my glass of...
I can’t be in Jerez for harvest, although I will be there from Monday to join in the Fiestas de la Vendimia celebrations (it’s work, honest!). So this week I’m living vicariously through all the fantastic photos...
You might remember I was at Vinoble this year – I tweeted about it a wee bit. So much so that I won a prize, for social media reach during Vinoble, from the Consejo...
Harveys is one of the fine old bodegas of the Sherry Triangle, but their most famous product – Harveys Bristol Cream – has hardly been at the forefront of the Sherry Revolution. Changes of ownership, being sold...