The Professional Association of Artisan Bodegas
of Sanlúcar is threatening a breakaway Consejo Regulador based in Sanlúcar, and
it has the support of the town council. The reaction to the recent High Court
of Andalucía ruling on BIB has taken a few days to come, but after a meeting yesterday
with the town’s mayor, Victor Mora, the council released a communiqué saying
that the Association had requested a viability study on the establishment of an
independent Consejo Regulador based in Sanlúcar. It feels that the interests of
Manzanilla would be best served this way, and not by a Consejo run predominantly
by Jerez bodegas which cannot produce Manzanilla.
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| Yesterday's meeting in sanlucar (foto:andaluciainformacion) |
This would imply a complete break with the
Consejo in Jerez which has always governed the two DOs of Jerez-Xeres-Sherry
and Manzanilla de Sanlúcar since the latter was given DO status in 1965. However
the Association does not represent all the bodegas, and the three which between
them sell the lion’s share of Manzanilla: Barbadillo, Delgado Zuleta and La
Guita, are not members, though La Guita is not counted as it is owned by Jerez
based Estévez. A spokesman for the Association says that although they have not
yet been in contact with the big bodegas, they are not ruling out their interest.
