The Domecq brandy produced in Mexico is sold as "Presidente Brandy". It's not the same as what's produced in Span.

Just came acoss this, released on Monday:

NEW FUNDADOR OWNER Emperador Inc. chair Andrew Tan (third from left) visits Bodegas Fundador in Jerez, Spain with son Kevin (second from left) and Emperador president Winston Co after announcing to almost 200 Spanish employees that the Filipino firm is buying Spain’s oldest and largest brandy (275 million euros).

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Ah yes, Presidente.

I have nice memories of the Domecqs. At Pamplona 1966 we were sitting near the owner's box when, must have been Alvaro, passed out champagne and canapes to all sitting nearby. He had an immense brown and white bull come into the ring. The crowd had it pardoned after a few turns around. Never saw that before or since.

You must have been sitting in the shade. Sharing food and drink at the bullfights during fiesta is something you will only find in Pamplona. It's tradition!

We've been there when two bulls where pardoned, but it has been a few years since the last time it happened.

No, we always sat in Sol. Was just looking at maps of the ring but couldn't find the palco de ganaderos. Oh well.

The Plaza de Toros de Pamplona doesn't have a Palco de Ganaderos, but there is a Sillón de preferencia section below the President's box. The most expensive seats, where the owner or ranch manager usually sits, are the Barrera de preferencia, the first row in front of the Sillón de preferencia seats.

The sol seats are dominated by the Peñas, who tend share their wine with everyone around them, so you typically end up looking a little purple by the end of the corridas. Only in Pamplona.

Those who want to keep their whites clean and white sit in the andanada, grada and tendidos 1, 2 & 3, in the sombra seats.

Thanks for the info, Robert. We don't expect to go back to Pamplona so can't check for the box where Alvaro Domecq was, but I did read that reformas had been made to that ring. Never wore white there but still sat with the plebs, but not the penas, of course. Perhaps we'll go to the Feria de Julio, Valencia, this year. Nice to cool off at the beach !

Not many dressed in festival colors (white and red) during Franco's time, but that finally changed in the early 80s.

I'd probably spend most of my time

eating :)
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visiting house museums like the Casa de Pilatos,

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and walking - which is pretty much what I did when I was last in Seville!
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Sounds like a lovely week. You'll have time to get out of the historic center which is fun too.

Happily.... ��

Ditto wtb...tapas, tapas, tapas...and walking, soaking up the atmosphere. Such a gorgeous place, I don't think you'll run out of places to see, but it's just being there that is so wonderful.

I seem to remember that we bought some Fundador on our first trip to Spain about 30 years ago and finished it in about 2005.

There were tons of people in white and red before 1975. We just weren't uniform people, still aren't.

I don't remember many, but then...