Reading and Roaming
JEREZ Jerez is a city of about 200,000 people not quite an hour away from Seville. It’s in the province of Cadiz and is the capital of the sherry world. For Americans, the city name is pronounced nothing like it’s spelled, and my rendering of it is, “Hreth.” Also the Spaniards aspirate the ‘j” in …
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WINE TASTING Through the years, the Chief Penguin and I have visited a number of vineyards and done tastings. Some of our earliest ones were in the Finger Lakes wine region in upstate New York; others were in the Loire and Rhône Valleys in France and in Chile and New Zealand. While living in San Francisco, we …
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ISLA NEGRA Poet Pablo Neruda is respected and revered by many Chileans. Politician, diplomat and man of letters, he owned three houses, one in Valparaiso, one in Santiago, and the third one on the coast at Isla Negra. This third house is a museum full of many of the objects that Neruda collected, and what a …
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