Williams & Humbert
have announced the first lecture for 2017 in their Ciclo de Conferencias. It will be given by Manuel Pimentel, writer, agricultural engineer, businessman and ex-president of the DO Montilla-Moriles on
the subject of the changes in society, bodegas and Consejos Reguladores which
wine faces. Entry is free but one must confirm attendance to the bodega.
Two wines from Bodegas
Tradición CZ have triumphed in a recent blind tasting of 400 Spanish wines in Barcelona. The Amontillado VORS
and the Palo Cortado VORS were both awarded the highest score of 95 points –
seven points higher than the average of 88 - by wine expert and 2007 Best
Sommelier in the World, Andreas Larsson.
Blindtasted.com was set up as a promotional tool for wine producers
whereby all wines would be tasted blind in identical conditions.
Barbadillo’s Amontillado
Versos 1891 has won a gold medal for brand packaging in the Best Awards 2017. Only 100 bottles of the wine
were sold, at 10,000€ each, on the 125 anniversary of the birth of Manuel
Barbadillo, poet and bodeguero who was linked to the “generation of 27” which
included names like Rafel Alberti and Federico García Lorca.
Fundador have begun
restoration work on the Torre de Riquelme, part of the old city wall which nestles between the bodega
buildings and was part of the historic but now disappeared Puerta de Rota. It
has long been in a very poor state and now that the necessary permissions have
been granted,work has begun.
The remains of José
María Ruiz Mateos, founder of Rumasa, have been exhumed for a DNA sample by order of the court. This is to
prove once and for all whether or not he was the father of Adela Montes de Oca
who has long claimed to be his daughter. Three times he found excuses not to
give a sample while he was still alive.
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