Osborne is the creation of Englishman Thomas Osborne Mann. It was founded at the beginning of the 19th century and is one of the oldest wineries in Spain. Today, Osborne has grown into a large group, has given up wine production and focuses mostly on the brandy and other products. However,…
Elegante Fino Palomino sherry comes from the same wine house as the most sold fino sherry of the world, Tio Pepe. When Tio Pepe matured at least 5 years, Elegante Fino is younger, matured around 3 years. There might also be used wines which are note eligible for producing Tio Pepe…
The founder of Gonzalez Byass, Manuel Maria Gonzalez, named ‘Tio Pepe’ after his ‘Uncle Joe’ who created his pale, very dry white wine in 1844. Uncle Joe also helps to find funding on the first wine house. Tio Pepe is the most sold fino sherry in the world. 35cl bottle was bought…
Barbadillo is one of the biggest sherry producers in Spain. The wine house was established at 1821 by Benigno Barbadillo. It is still a family owned company and have a wide selection of different sherry wines. They are the most important producer of manzanilla sherries. If addition of a wide range…
Conzalez-Byass is the biggest and best known sherry producer. The story for the company starts from 1835, when it was established by spanish Manuel Maria Gonzalez together with brittish Robert Blake Byass. The company have been working as family company already four generation. The company build it’s own winehouse at 1862…
Sandeman is better known of it port wines, but they are strong also on sherry region. It’s one of the oldest still working trademarks. Story tells that it was established by George Sandeman in 1790, when he got at loan of 300£ from his father, to open a port and sherry…
Sherry was very popular in UK during 18th century. Nearly all sherry was imported through Bristol city port, so it was soon started called as Bristol Milk. There were different wine merchants which imported and blends ‘Bristol Milk’ and one of them was John Harvey, who started his business at 1796.…