Sánchez Romate is best known for its Brandy Cardenal Mendoza Solera Gran Reserva, one of the world’s best-selling brandies. Bodegas Sánchez Romate Hermanos, based in Jerez de la Frontera, was founded in 1781 and has been owned by five families since 1954. The main sales are made with brandy, the bodegas
Cream means sweetened sherry, a category that also includes Pale Cream and Medium, is considered by quite a few sherry lovers as a purely commercial product. This may be true if Oloroso is sweetened by the addition of sweet or even cooked, concentrated grape must (Arrope). But that holds not true if of blending a dry sherry is done with a sweet sherry, such as PX (Pedro Ximénez) or Moscatel, as is the case … Read more ...
A visit to the Bodega Tío Pepe of González-Byass in Jerez de la Frontera is practically a “must” if you are exploring sherry in the sherry triangle between the cities of Jerez, El Puerto de Santa Maria and Sanlúcar de Barrameda. A visit to this bodega was also on the agenda of the trip of the wine academy beginning of October this year.