Production of the new
sculpture for the Tio Pepe roundabout is under way. Made from high grade
stainless steel, Chiqui Diaz’s design will be nine metres high. He has started
by moulding the sheet steel into shape, after which he will assemble the piece
and then apply patina to the steel, giving it various colours and degrees of
polish. Some of it will be mirror-polished to reflect what is going on around
the roundabout and interact with the surroundings. It won’t be long now before
the roundabout, close to the Corte Ingles store in Jerez, is adorned with its Tio
Pepe.
The Spanish
Government is proposing to apply a tax on wine. A commission of experts was
appointed to look into fiscal reform, and one of their proposals is to raise
the tax on wine. This is already in place in fact, but at a rate of zero.
France has also done this, but tax is applied at a very low rate on wine and
fermented beverages.
The minister for agriculture, food and the environment,
Miguel Arias Cañete, who has spent much time in Jerez, has declared his opposition to the
idea. He wants to see Spain able to compete with other producer countries, and
anyway, sales of wine in Spain are falling. The FEV (Federacion Española del
Vino) has also declared opposition to the plan.
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