The Great Sherry Tasting 2014 will take place
in London at the 1st
Floor Gallery, The Westbury Hotel, Bond Street London on Monday the 15th
September. There will be two free tutored tastings, but this one is trade only.
Time to get to know your wine merchant a little better!
The Consejo Regulador is expecting income of
285,000 Euros from
a 5 centimo per kilo levy on grapes with the Denominacion de Origen from
growers this season after an agreement was reached at a plenary meeting on
Tuesday for the re-establishment of the so-called “grape tax”, on condition
that it was only imposed on grapes destined for Sherry, and not on those
destined for table wines. Fedejerez, (representing the bodegas), also agreed to
a rise from 1 Euro to 1.25 Euros in the levy per litre of wine sold by the bodegas, which would amount to an estimated 500,000 Euros, assuming
the crop is as estimated, 55 million kilos.
As a
result, the Consejo’s budget for promotion in export markets has virtually doubled,
to 785,000 Euros. Cesar Saldaña, director of the Consejo, hopes to double this latter figure with grants from the OCM which governs public institutions such as ICEX
and Extenda. {It is worth pointing out that even if he achieved this, the budget
would still be about one fifth of that of Rioja}.
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