Sherry

Philip Rowles is by training a Spanish linguist, who came to be in the Wine Trade almost by accident, but has now been in that Trade for almost 50 years.

Following his formative years at Williams & Humbert in Jerez he has worked in various capacities with several Sherry Bodegas, including González Byass, Garvey, Marqués de Real Tesoro and Lustau.

He has also had strong commercial and oenological links with Bodegas Torres, C.V.N.E, Bodegas Ochoa and Freixenet.

He was principal lecturer at Diploma Level for the WSET on both Spanish Light Wines and Sherry for many years, and for his contribution to Spanish Wine Education was made a member of the Gran Orden de Caballeros del Vino in 1991.

In the same year he was seconded to the E.U. in Brussels to help set up and roll out the fledgling E.U. Wine Inspectorate within the Agriculture Directorate.

For the last 20 years of his working life he was Wine Manager at Freixenet U.K., overseeing the technical aspects of their extensive Spanish, Californian and South American portfolio.

Now semi-retired he has found time to return to his first wine love – Sherry; and to write this book.