In this short film, free for all and not just for Purple pagers, Jesús Barquín, professor of criminology at the University of Granada and fount of all modern sherry knowledge (put 'barquin' in...

A quaint and surely admirable tradition was continued recently in Jerez, Andalucia.  Britain has a Poet Laureate, a sort of official poet to the nation, expected to conjure up lines, if not...

One of the people who came to dinner last night just emailed to ask for details of one of the wines we served. As I wrote out the list I thought I'd share it with you as it was a much more...

The site is littered with references to the Equipo Navazos and Jesús Barquín, as you will find if you put either into the search box top right, but see especially Jancis's review in The...

This is the time of year when there really is no excuse not to open bottles of wines that are stronger and sweeter than the norm, and here are some that are looking especially delicious or...

In the second of our collections of tasting notes on some of the great fortified wines, Victoria looks at some of the most venerable sherries on the market. The VOS and VORS classifications...

I can still remember where, when and why I walked into my first tapas bar. It was one early Sunday evening in the spring of 1978 in the old town of Bilbao in northern Spain to which I had...

In a nutshell : The world's most neglected wine treasure. Main grape : Palomino (white). Many modern wine drinkers will look at this section and wonder why on earth I think it...

Jesus Barquín, my guide during my fascinating short visit to Jerez last April, was wonderfully well informed about almost all aspects of sherry, except for one. Indeed his area of...

Continuing our re-exploration of sherry, I just thought I would pass on a food and wine combination that worked absolutely beautifully the other night. Chef Lander was out at an awards dinner at...

I don’t often select a whole category of wine as my wine of the week but I have had such strong positive yet curious feedback as a result of my recent articles urging wine lovers to look...

Do you remember one of the prime reasons that sherry died a death? In the 1960s sherry was so commonplace in Britain that it featured in the cost of living index and in the 1970s Jerez was one...

In April I returned to the sherry town of Jerez for the first time in more than 20 years, the gap itself a reflection of how this unique and often stunning style of wine has, regrettably, slipped...

Below are tasting notes on some of the very best of many great wines tasted by David Schildknecht and me on our short but intensive visit to sherry country in April. I have also appended some...

Last week I spent a couple of days renewing my acquaintance with Jerez and visiting Montilla for the first time prior to the Wine Creators event in Ronda , on which I will be reporting a week on...