Ramón Francás

The wines of Jerez will be among the main protagonists of the sixth edition of BWW. For this edition, we are preparing a tasting with iconic products that will offer an unforgettable—and perhaps unrepeatable—experience. We want to bring the goblin of Jerez to Barcelona (no, obviously not the 1953 fantasy musical comedy film). They say that if Jerez were a musical genre, it would undoubtedly be flamenco (its tabancos are temples of art and wine). But there is no doubt whatsoever that “goblins drink wine from Jerez.” Some have written that, real or not, goblins must favour the generous wines of Jerez, since Jerez is where one of the world’s greatest wines is produced. It is a place as magical as it is real. Victor Hugo once said that “if God had not created Jerez, how imperfect His work would be!” Lord Byron drove the point home by stating that “Jerez de la Frontera is a city that ought to be in Paradise.”

In a glass or on a spoon, we will enter—through the yellow pituitary and the palate—old winery halls with lowered blinds, vineyards of pale albariza soil illuminated by the Andalusian sun and caressed by the sea breeze of Cádiz—between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea—and eternal wines that have lived under the magic of the flower.