El Puerto de St Maria

Well the plan was to get the catamaran across the bay to El Puerto but it was still not running despite the wind being much lighter so we had to go on the substitute bus. El Puerto de Santa Maria is one of the towns that forms the sherry triangle along with Jerez and Sanlucar. It only has 5 bodega still producing sherry from 50 in the last century but one of them is our favourite. Gutierrez Colosia is small and family run and their sherry is delicious. We did the tour before the tasting and it is amazing that you learn new things every time. After the tasting we had lunch in the sun a few doors away at the tapas bar run by Carmen, the daughter of the family who did our tour 4 years ago - she was just planing to open a tapas bar then and now it is open and very good.Read more