Bodegas Hermanos Perez Pascuas, Pedrosa de Duero, Ribera del Duero with Manolo Pérez Pascuas with Their Magnificent Wines and chuletillas de cordero al sarmiento, lamb chops cooked of grape vine prunings

 

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Bodegas Hermanos Perez Pascuas employee manages the rack of Chuletillas de cordero al sarmiento, lamb chops cooked of grape vine prunings.May 9, 2022 at Bodegas Hermanos Pérez Pascuas Viña Pedrosa in Pedrosa de Duero in la Ribera del Duero. Lunch with my friend of nearly 40 years Manolo Pérez Pascuas, who insisted on us posing with my book Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition in front of the photograph of his late father, Mauro Pérez, who worked these vineyards, now some 120 hectares (about 300 acres) of primo vines growng at an altitude of 800 meters (2600 feet) above sea level.

 

Manolo provided us with a tour of the bodega, where I have been some 30-40 times, then a superb luncheon in the bodega´s dining room overlooking the family's vineyard and a vast expanse of the eastern Ribera del Duero from the highlands of Burgos province.

 

Lunch, accompanied by the superb Pérez Pascuas Viña Pedrosa red wines, was ensalada de lechuga, tomate y cebolla, chorizo cooked in vino tinto and baby lamb chops cooked al sarmiento, over grape vine prunings.

 

Photos:

 

Gerry Dawes and Manolo Pérez Pascuas, who insisted on us posing with my book Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition in front of the photograph of his late father, Mauro Pérez.

 

 

 Gerry Dawes, Manolo Pérez Pascuas and Nuria Peña Albillo, Directora Técnica y Enóloga de Bodegas Hermanos Pérez Pascuas.

 

 

 Chorizos al vino tinto.

 

 

 

Manolo Pérez Pascuas and The Simpsons Mike Reiss supervising the cooking of the chuletillas de cordero al sarmiento, lamb chops cooked over grape vine prunings, 

 

 

 

Chuletillas de cordero al sarmiento, lamb chops cooked over grape vine prunings. employee of Bodegas Hermanos Perez Pascuas.

 

 

 

 Chuletillas de cordero al sarmiento, lamb chops cooked over grape vine prunings. Bodegas Hermanos Perez Pascuas.

 

 

 My great nephew Travis Barnett with Manolo Pérez Pascuas and a bottle of the bodega´s top of the line Bodegas Hermanos Perez Pascuas 'Perez Pascuas Gran Seleccion' Gran Reserva 2009, whose 2014 vintage retails for $400 in the United States.

 

 

 

Manolo Pérez Pascuas, Denise Reiss and The Simpsons Mike Reiss posing in the vineyards of Hermanos Pérez Pascuas. Denise has assumed her traditional leg cocked position, while Mike appears to be playing what the Spaniards call billar de bolsillo, or pocket pool, also a sort of cocked leg position.

 

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Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition

 

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About Gerry Dawes

My good friend Gerry Dawes, the unbridled Spanish food and wine enthusiast cum expert whose writing, photography, and countless crisscrossings of the peninsula have done the most to introduce Americans—and especially American food professionals—to my country's culinary life." -- Chef-restaurateur-humanitarian José Andrés, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Oscar Presenter 2019

Gerry Dawes is the Producer and Program Host of Gerry Dawes & Friends, a weekly radio progam on Pawling Public Radio in Pawling, New York (streaming live and archived at www.pawlingpublicradio.org and at www.beatofthevalley.com.)

Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a retrospective piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià. 

In December, 2009, Dawes was awarded the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award in a profile written by José Andrés. 

". . .That we were the first to introduce American readers to Ferran Adrià in 1997 and have ever since continued to bring you a blow-by-blow narrative of Spain's riveting ferment is chiefly due to our Spanish correspondent, Gerry "Mr. Spain" Dawes, the messianic wine and food journalist raised in Southern Illinois and possessor of a self-accumulated doctorate in the Spanish table. Gerry once again brings us up to the very minute. . ." - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher and Founding Editor/Publisher, Food Arts, October 2009. 

 

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