Jerez, Spain News

Dec 3rd 2009 at 4:02PM Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, famed Scotch whisky distillery The Macallan is offering its acclaimed Sherry Oak 18 Years Old single malt in a gift box made of beautiful, solid oak, connoting the distillery's commitment and attention to the special interplay of spirit and wood.

Sherry is cask-aged for a minimum of three years, but that can extend to 30 years.

Having impressed on the opening day of testing in Jerez on Tuesday, Andy Soucek admits he is focused on securing a drive for the 2010 season.

Something always draws me back to Spain. It really doesn't make very much sense.

The Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup will expand to ten races over six rounds in 2010.

It's a tradition that dates back to 1619, and yesterday Carol Ann Duffy became the latest in a long line of Poet Laureates to accept a gift of sherry from Spain.

A Swiss adventurer went down in the Atlantic on Wednesday while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain with jet-powered wings strapped to his back.

Force India Mercedes has announced that Paul di Resta and JR Hildebrand will share driving duties of the VJM02 for the test in Jerez, Spain next week.

The cold winter months conjure images of a toasty fireplace and a glass of dark, thick wine to warm your stomach and relax your mind.

From a press release issued by FTR: Graeme Gowland in action on the FTR Moto2 prototype at Jerez.

Spain has been the main destination of choice for Britons on the look-out for a second home or retirement bolthole since the Seventies.

Long-established award-winning real estate agent, Mercers, has just launched its newest concept which is ideally suited to today's Spanish property market - Rent2Buy.

FTR Moto continues to prepare itself for the 2010 Moto2 Championship with a race outing in Spain this weekend FTR Moto will continue its strides towards the inaugural 2010 Moto2 season by competing in the penultimate round of the CEV Bucker Spanish Championship at Jerez this weekend.

Spain's ham producers are eyeing with alarm the spread of a fungus which is threatening the food supply essential to the production of the country's famous leg of pig.

As you may remember, I took a weeklong trip to Jerez at the end of the summer this year, and fell madly in love with sherry.

A new Ikea store is due to open in Jerez next spring, whose area of 36,000 square metres, La Voz de Cadiz reports, will make it the Swedish multi-national's largest store in Andalucia.

Spain has a network of 1,700 kilometres of VA as Verdes a ' the Green Routes which have been reclaimed from disused railway lines and which now provide level trails across the country for cyclists and walkers to enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery the Spanish countryside has to offer.

JANE SLADE discovers affordable deals in some of the world's most prestigious locations... on both land and water They might look like floating caravans but they are being sold as timeshare houseboats in one of europe's most romantic locations; Venice.

Portugal has taken delivery of the first of 16 Iberian Lynx to be handed over by Spain for a captive breeding programme to be launched at a centre built in Silves, in the south of the country.

A corporate cash call backed by expensive brandy has caught the eye of Spanish securities regulators, invited professorial comment and provided further proof that conventional financing is hard to come by these days.