8.7.13 World Sherry Week; Tastings in Sanlucar

World Sherry Day, planned for 2014 is to become World Sherry Week. This is because in 2013 many restaurants round the world found it difficult to do on the exact day because of opening hours and timetable problems. A whole week would give them greater flexibility. Chelsea Anthon, one of the promoters of WSD, said that all over the world interesting food was matched with Sherry, enriching enormously the possibilities. She also echoed the thoughts of many, expressing her surprise at how little promotion Sherry gets abroad, and disappointment that only about 2,000 people work in the trade now, when twenty years ago it was 20,000.

Every summer for the last three years, a superb tasting has taken place in Sanlucar – in a taberna. The Taberna der Guerrita, in fact, run by Armando Guerra, a great lover of wine and especially Sherry. His father established the business in 1978, and in 2008 Armando took advantage of a spare room to create the “Sacristia del Marco de Jerez”, where the tastings will take place. They were both also involved with the production of the Enomap, a wine related map of the province of Cadiz (enomap.com)

This year’s programme runs from the 28^th June till the 7^th September. It includes tutored tastings of light wines from Asturias, Cantabria, Emporda, Canarias, Champagne, Beaujolais , Italy and Portugal. There will, of course, be Sherries, those of El Maestro Sierra and Vintages of Williams & Humbert, and also two tastings on the subject of biological ageing, by Eduardo Ojeda and Luis Perez Rodriguez. There will also be a comparative tasting of Champagne and Sherry by Peter Liem. Not to be missed!

Taberna Der Guerrita, C/San Salvador at corner with C/Rubiños, Sanlucar de Barrameda