José María
Ruiz Mateos has been released from prison on health grounds after his doctor
submitted a report citing Parkinson’s disease. The 84 year old had been taken
from the prison after one night to the Gregorio Marañón hospital after his
condition worsened. His family have taken him back to his matrimonial home in
Madrid.
New York
has enjoyed the return of Sherryfest which ran from the 23rd to the
25thof this week. After the event’s success in 2012 it has moved
around other cities in the USA, Canada and Spain. The Big Apple seems to have a
thirst for Sherry which is winning great popularity among experts and wine
lovers, chief of whom is Peter Liem, who initiated the 2012 event with the
support of the Consejo Regulador.
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| L-R Peter Liem, Antonio Flores, Cesar Saldana at Sherryfest NY |
The formula
works, and the city was inundated with all things Sherry including seminars,
tastings and gastronomic events. The Grand Tasting beat the previous record of
500 tasters leaving Peter Liem in no doubt as to how popular Sherry is
becoming. The tasting featured 20 bodegas showing 140 wines, and top bodegueros
were on hand such as Paola Medina (Williams& Humbert), Montse Molina (Barbadillo)
and Lorenzo García Iglesias of Tradición.
Consejo
Director César Saldaña participated in sessions aimed at young restaurant
professionals and wine lovers on subjects like Crianza Biológica, Palos
Cortados, VOS and VORS Wines and the Diversity of Sherry. They were delighted
to try wines hitherto unavailable in the USA and in the opportunity to try them
with menus prepared by the restaurants. In César’s words “Sherryfest is a
magnificent example of the interest these great wines are awakening in
professionals all over the world. It is very satisfying to have such a
professional and young audience which has real admiration for the quality we
produce and its great potential in world gastronomy.”
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