The Wine Guild

The Guild is governed by a board of six: two priests, two representatives of municipalities and two winemakers. This met before and after harvest for the price of grapes to resolve and that the new must, as far as possible, things like that, at the cost of development on life then and now to be calculated, those prices were more than double today. If West India fleet was supplied with wine, this was achieved by a quota system, rather than freeCompetition.

The worst were the traders may not build up large stocks, the wine has been aged long enough and therefore not lost business because of lack of storage due to delays in the preparation of mixtures and coasters for shipment. The idea behind this scheme has been fantastic, this wine could be kept to divert profits from the hands of the producers in which the dealer, and to encourage speculation. The only large stock of old wine in possession ofChurch and a few private wine cellar.

to make these limitations, shippers easy and profitable, with a minimum of effort and competition, but in fact had the opposite effect, and the sherry trade-oriented, could be grown elsewhere to compete with the wines. Malaga, for example, exports is not a rich dessert wine unlike sherry, and became popular in the UK under the name Mountain. This covers most of the available market for Spanish wines of Malaga and exports are higher than thoseone of Cadiz and Sanlucar.

The restrictions of the Gremio were received from a number of dealers, especially Juan Hauri. There was a dispute, and a lot of bitter conflict, not all of the wine in question with: Members have been accused too Gines on fireworks for the annual feast of St and gifts of chocolate and cocktails. But despite all the efforts of his opponents, was the guild until it was dissolved by Royal Proclamation of 1834after 101 years of existence devastating.

By 1754, due to the bad state of trade, there were only nine sherry shipper in Jerez next, and it is doubtful whether more than one of them was English. The lone Englishman John Brickdale that is supposed to be a Mason, in spite of which he was apparently in good agreement with the local clergy. He was also a patron of the Church of San Giorgio in Sanlucar, although this does not necessarily mean that he was a Catholic, he may havesupports him simply because he was English.

Other British merchants were trading in Cadiz and at least one of them Henry Pickering interested in wine exporters. In 1785 came from a Catholic family of Gordons from Scotland and the end of the century, was largely in the wine Frade. Hauri accumulated a number of assistants in the United Kingdom about the same time.

Hauri was himself a refugee from France, and was joined by relatives and countrymenas Pemartin, Domecq and Lacoste, whose work was much Sherry placemats and stimulate trade. Other families of French origin, still active in the trade include Lustau Sherry, Lacave and Delage. There was also an influx of capital from India, brought to Andalusia because of political unrest in the colonies.

As British merchants lived in Sanlucar, and most important of which was Henry Stonor. As a younger son, he could expect no inheritance andAs a Catholic, was not a great career open to him in Britain. Like many other cadets of his family, decides to seek his fortune in a Catholic country. After completing his education at Douai in 1760 moved to Cadiz, with him wearing an official copy of his arms and pedigrees, available at the College of Heralds.

After a few years ago, married an English wife Elizabeth Gardiner-Brown, and settled in Sanlucar Stonor find another business built as a merchant. HeExports of oranges and lemons, with an inventory of orange fashion, along with partridge and spoke Spanish, of course, sherry. In return, he imported English saddlery and hunting dogs, specializing in greyhounds. One of his four children has a Temporary Commission in the Spanish army and caused a sensation by visiting his British relations shines in its very consistent.

Other British residents in Sanlucar belonged at that time a captain David Ferrier, whose exactEmployment (if any) is uncertain, but he had an employee named Gaspare Muclek and a butler named Colisons Joseph. In 1754 thirty-two English residents have signed a petition to the Pope, the appointment of a visitor to the church of San Giorgio. Probably only a few of them were related to the wine trade.