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Title: YOUR GLASS OF SHERRY

Reference number: 0190

Date: 1960

Director: d. Stanley Russell

Sponsor: John Harvey and Sons Limited

Production company: Thames and Clyde

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 17 mins

Description: Shot in Jerez and Seville the film illustrates how sherry is made.

Credits: ph. Stanley Russell

Shotlist: credits (.50) (Spanish countryside). Jerez during fiesta to celebrate the start of a new vintage (2.40) afterwards the pickers set out to work in the vineyards (3.44) grapes laid out to dry in the courtyard of the pressing house (4.37) soils in the region influence the falvour of the wine (5.30) grapes trod and pressed and liquid poured into kegs - taken to bodega to settle (7.24) fermentation begins (8.17) map of sherry region of Spain (8.340) Seville - shots of street life, buildings government offices and cathedral (9.55) Jerez, old town and modern town life. Old Fort (11.00) Sanluca - streets (11.16) Puerto de la Santa Maria and export of casks of sherry (11.51) The bodega. The wine is maturing and tasting begins. Casks fortified with grape spirit. The classification of wines into sweet, olorosa and dry fino. Blending (15.05) expert blends and matches sherries to maintain consistency (15.43) Bristol - streets. Harvey's warehouses (16.44)