Malaga Film Festival

The Malaga Film Festival began in 1998 and has since become one of the most important cinema festivals in Spain, with more than 300,000 people visiting each year. A wide variety of the latest feature films, shorts and documentaries from Spain and Latin America compete to win the coveted Biznaga de Oro, which acknowledges artistic [...]

Bodegas Ordoñez at Cambridge University

I first met Gareth Powell, the President of the Cambridge University Wine Society, last year at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter in London. In fact, almost exactly a year ago as I’ll be attending the next Decanter event this coming weekend. Well, Gareth tasted the Ordoñez wines and invited me to present my wines at [...]

Fiesta del Carmen

The Fiesta del Carmen is held on the 16th July, and is of particular importance in Málaga city and the surrounding towns and villages with a maritime tradition. Carmen is the patron saint of seafarers and the festival dates back to when the main source of revenue in the area was the fishing industry. It [...]

51 Festival Cueva de Nerja

In the Axarquía, where we have our vineyard, you will also find the spectacular Nerja Caves, which were discovered in 1959. Once inhabited by Neanderthals, these caves are notable for their fantastic rock formations, stalagmites and stalactites. Since the summer of 1960 the silence of centuries has been broken each year with the now world [...]

Introduction to Wine Tasting

This week I will be going to Trabanca to take part in the opening of the Summer School of the University of Salamanca, which starts today. The first course is an introduction to wine tasting and I’ll be giving a talk on Wine Culture on Tuesday afternoon. This special series of courses and international conferences [...]