Porto – for #winelovers' seminar and Port immersion event

 São Bento Station and beyond late afternoon

 Pleasant Ryanair flight!

We flew from Tours to Porto this morning on Ryanair. We haven't travelled on Ryanair for a while and I was amazed as the staff were very welcoming, friendly and helpful. I kept thinking I must have got on the wrong plane or was flying with another company......  

Here for a #winelovers event #IWS2016 – posts to follow.   

 Around São Bento

 (above and below)

 Porto in a Bottle 

small, friendly wine shop in Rua das Flores

Smoking a pipe
 while holding up the ceiling of the Tropical Café

#winelovers 4th annual celebration @Jerez: photos of #winelovers

Carmen Pou

Juan Carlos Gutiérrez Colosia

"He says serve our wines warm to #winelovers 

so they can see their complexities, I say serve them cold!" 

 Famous Mosel producer Jan Matthias Klein with the Gutiérrez family

Carmen Gutiérrez Pou – the next generation

 Sinisa Curavic

 

Christian

Elena Roppa

Anne Naumanen

by Ricardo

 Gerhild Magerl

 Valeska

Valeska and Carla Terry Osborne  

Jane Shin

Mi Yeun Hong

Magdalena Brhel

Evren Kalkan

Karin Carvalho


Maria Frangieh (Liban)

Julie Perrinot

Giannis Krassaki, Carla Maset, Magdalena Brhel

 

#winelovers #sherrylovers #Osborne – variation on an iconic image....

+ signed #winelovers cask

#winelovers in Jerez: Day 2 – Barbadillo and Delgado Zuleta, Sanlucar de Barrameda

 Sanlucar de Barrameda and the sea's influence on Manzanilla  

Yesterday we had another great day very well organised by Valeska and Fernando of Paladar y Tomar. Two visits in Sanlucar de Barrameda to learn about Manzanilla and why it is different to the wines from Jerez. Our first visit was to Barbadillo, whose range I partly knew already especially Solear, and then later we went to Degado Zuleta, a completely new bodega to me but with some very impressive wines offering fantastic value. 

 

Barbadillo and its leading fino brand 

 

Montse Molina: 

 the first female winemaker in the Jerez region  

 

 

 

Ricardo, his plate trick and and matching fire extinguisher

Amando Guerra, director division alta enologia

Delgado Zuleta

Emma

 Salvador Real – Delgado Zuleta's winemaker