An extensive and valuable archive of documents relating to
the Sherry business over the late XVIII and XIX centuries has been donated to
the Jerez Municipal Archive by Sandeman. The documents will now be conserved
and catalogued by the Archive’s technicians. This gift comes about thanks to an
agreement between Jose Moreno Silvetti of Sandeman and the Council, both of
whom recognise the huge historical importance of the archive.
The documents amount to 141 boxes containing among other things accounts books,
correspondence, inventories, title deeds, information on bodegas, vineyards, export
figures and photographs covering the bodega Julian Pemartin & Cia (1799 –
1880) and Sandeman Buck & Co (1878 – 1976) who took over Pemartin when they
went bust in 1879.
The collection was found in the casa de la viña, built in
the late XVII- early XVIIIcentury at the Viña El Corregidor vineyard in the
Carrascal. It has been well looked after since by Alberto Ramos Santana of the
Historic Wine Studies Department of the University of Cadiz.
These valuable documents join others of great importance at
the Municipal Archive, such as those of Manuel Misa, Diez Hermanos, Marques del
Merito, Salvador Diez and Valdespino, along with documentation about the Gremio
de Vinateria. Combined, this collection is of incalculable value to the study
of the history and patrimony of Jerez
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