10.9.15 It's All Happening in Jerez!

De Copa en Copa starts today at 20.30 in the Claustros de Santo Domingo in Jerez and runs till Saturday. It is a wonderful opportunity to taste a huge range of Sherries as no fewer than 16 bodegas are taking part. They are Diez Mérito,  Estévez, Delgado Zuleta, Grant, Gutiérrez Colosía, Wiiliams & Humbert, Garvey, Coop Las Angustias, César Florido, Harveys, Faustino González, González Byass, Barón, Álvaro Domecq, Sánchez Romate and Dios Baco. Entry is free but there are various tasting tickets at various very reasonable prices.

Los Claustros de Santo Domingo

Also starting today and running till Saturday is the II Feria ConVinoJerez featuring cocktails based on Sherry. This is in the Plaza Canterbury and runs from 20.00 till late with drinks priced at €2.50. There will be live music, some bodegas will have stands, and an exhibition of photographs of winemaking by Mariano Cano. Tonight it is the turn of Williams & Humbert to hold the Cata Magistral at the Alcázar which will be led by their oenologist Paola Medina.

If that were not enough, there are visits organised to the La Mezquita bodega, Bodegas Tradición and Cortijo de la Jara. Then there are guided cycle tours of the historic centre of Jerez or all-terrain vehicle tours of the countryside, the Ruta de los Tabancos de Jerez y la Vendimia, and a tour of the traditional bodegas Cayetano del Pino.

14.8.15 Harvest Festval 2015

This year’s Fiesta de la Vendimia will be celebrated between the 1 and the 20 September. Those most Jerezano of passions will be at the centre of things: wine, Flamenco and horses, and it is the perfect time to also celebrate the Consejo’s 80^th birthday.

San Ginés, the Consejo’s own bodega, was the scene of the presentation of this year’s more than ample programme of events, and it was attended by the media, the mayor and members of the organisation commission. Among the main collaborators in the fiesta are the bodegas, tabancos, rural and wine tourism entities and the equestrian organisations. The fiesta will cost the council very little as events are mostly organised by private enterprise. This is just as well, as Jerez is the most indebted council in Spain.

This is the longest, most event-packed Fiesta de la Vendimia ever, and is unmissable. For the events programme visit www.turismojerez.com