Category: Sherry

The Cocktail Wonk Top Ten Stories of 2017

As 2017 draws nigh, it’s time for the traditional year…

Antonio Páez Lobato cooperage

Birth of a Sherry Cask

The screech of wood meeting an industrial planer blade pierces…

Bodegas Los Reyes, González Byass

In Search of Tio Pepe and Tipsy Mice at González Byass

The streets of Jerez de la Frontera in the southwest…

Dos Maderas: Behind the Scenes at the Bodega

Years ago, as an aspiring rum wonk, I began to…

The Lustau Bodega Experience – A Cocktail Wonk Immersion

The narrow, maze-like one-way streets of Sanlúcar de Barrameda are…

The Cocktail Wonk Guide to Sherry — Spain’s Magical Mystery Wine

The cool air is heavy with the smell of wine…

Cocktail Obsession: Pizzicato Passage

Seattle winters are more cool gray drizzle than snow, and…

La Frontera, by Jim Romdall, Rumba, Seattle

Rum and Sherry – A shared history and great together in cocktails!

June 2-8 2014 is International Sherry Week and I’m pretty…