Browsing the "Background" Category

Drake’s Tabanco (London)

30 June 2014 | by Ruben

London’s Fitzrovia area is the place to be for some of the leading Iberian restaurants and tapas bars in the UK.

26 May 2014 | by Ruben

Tabancos are typical Andalusian premises. A tabanco was half tavern, where you could have a drink or eat some tapas,

1 April 2014 | by Ruben

When reading articles about sherry, two elements pop up regularly: Short shelf life: sherry should be bought and opened as

12 March 2014 | by Ruben

Most sherry producers will stress the fact that their products have a limited shelf life (in the case of a Manzanilla

18 January 2014 | by Ruben

D.O. Jerez-Xérès-Sherry is one of Spain’s most historic wine regions. Writers of the 1st century BC already mentioned a wine

31 December 2013 | by Ruben

I’m constantly reading about sherry, and as I’m particularly interested in the better examples, I tend to chase specific sherries until

4 December 2013 | by Ruben

I know a lot of people out there are still struggling with the different types of sherry. Why is a

17 October 2013 | by Ruben

Vintage sherry or Jerez de Añada is extremely rare, so rare that a lot of introductions to sherry wines will

15 September 2013 | by Ruben

Flor is the veil or thin layer of indigenous yeast cells that forms on top of sherry wines. It is a kind of Ivory coloured, wrinkled, waxy

28 August 2013 | by Ruben

Sherry has a unique and rather complex system of maturation using a large number of casks and fractional blending. This