Jerez is bursting at the seams with bikers and motor
bikes here for this weekend’s Moto GP, the 30th to be held at the Jerez
Circuito de Velocidad. It is an incredible sight and will do no harm to the
city’s coffers. Of the first ten places, Spanish riders occupy seven, so the
locals are all fired up as well. Ex-king Juan Carlos arrived in Jerez yesterday
for the event – but not on a motor bike.
Meanwhile
Carmelo Ezpeleta, director of Dorna the company which organises the World
Championship, paid a visit to González Byass and was guided by the firm’s
president, Mauricio González Gordon, and Pedro Rebuelta, vice president.
Signing a butt Ezpeleta remarked that while Jerez has been famous forever for
Sherry, it is gaining fame for the Moto GP as well. He said he was honoured to
be signing a butt at González Byass alongside other butts signed by motorcycle
racing legends like Ángel Nieto, Giacomo Agostini and Jorge Lorenzo.
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The BIB polemic is hotting up again, and today’s
Diario de Jerez says that it will continue until the Junta stops looking the other way
and pronounces on the question once and for all. The majority of bodegas are
against BIB either for sale to the public or to the trade and thus the Consejo
refuses to issue suitable precintas, while the manzanilleros feel they have the
Junta’s support for sale to the trade but are forced to use precintas issued
for garrafas, a practice which is not permitted.
Fernando López
Gil of the Junta says it is in touch with both sides, but the interlocutor is
the Consejo, and an administrative solution will take time and would be better
after the Consejo elections scheduled for the middle of June. Until such time,
the manzanilleros are frustrated by the Consejo’s refusal to issue precintas
for containers they see as legal. Both sides wish the Junta would take decisive
action.
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