The Consejo Regulador under its president Beltran Domecq has begun to hold a big sherry tasting in London every year. I went to the Great Sherry Tasting earlier this month and, despite my expression in the photograph of Beltran and me below taken by Peter Dauthieu of Viniberia and Ehrmanns as I left the event, absolutely loved it. Gosh, these wines are good. And many of them are ridiculously underpriced.
The tasting, in the OXO tower on the south bank of the Thames, was far more crowded than sherry doubters might imagine. Lifelong sherry chronicler, lawyer Julian Jeffs QC, was...