18.11.14 XIX Fino Days; Organic Wine Seminar

The Atheneum of Wine has announced the programme for the XIX Fino Days. They will take place on Friday 21^st and Saturday 22nd and will include conferences, tastings and a visit to Gonzalez Byass. The announcement was made at Bodegas Obregon in El Puerto de Santa Maria, and the Atheneum vice president, Javier Thuiller, said he was pleased with the number of bodegas participating and that this would help promote the classic Fino from El Puerto

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The Hotel Monasterio will host a homage to Manuel Gonzalez of bodegas Obregon as well as a round table to discuss Fino en rama in which such winemakers as Manuel Lozano, Jaime Gonzalez, Antonio Flores, Juan Carlos Gutierrez and Fernando Romero will take part. The event will conclude with a tasting of Obregon’s Fino La Draga led by Manuel and Álvaro Gonzalez. The following day there will be a visit to Gonzalez Byass with a tasting of Tio Pepe en rama led by Antonio Flores and a meal at the bodega to round off the events.

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 A seminar on Organic viticulture and winemaking starts today at the Rancho de la Merced organised by the Agrarian Research and Education department (IFAPA) with the support of the Junta de Andalucia. The seminar will last till Thursday and will look at every aspect of organic production which include regulations, certification, production in the vineyard and the bodega and more.  There will be a visit to an organic vineyard and a bodega as well as a tasting of the wine. 

9.11.13 XVIII Fino Days in El Puerto

This Monday, at the bodegas Obregon in El Puerto, the programme for the events will be unveiled at 1.00, which this year will be celebrated on the 15^th, 16^th and 17^th of this month. The programme is as follows:

Friday 15^th at 8.30 at the Hotel Monasterio San Miguel: The presentation of the programme followed by a round table on single vineyard Fino. There will be a glass of Fino served afterwards in the Hotel’s Cloister.

Saturday 16^th at 12.00 at Bodegas Caballero (entrance by the Castle). There will be a grand tasting starring Fino Pavon and a homage to Caballero and Lustau oenologist Manuel Lozano, winner five times consecutively of the IWC “Best fortified Wine Maker in the World”.

Sunday 17^th at 12.30 at Viña del Carmen (meet at Venta el Cepo) Visit to the vineyard and talk about the soils and the single vineyards by historian Javier Maldonado Rosso. New wine and country food will be served.

There’s just time to get a flight booked!