The house of 501 brandy, one of the leading brandy houses of the Marco at the start of the century, with bodegas on Calle Valdés in El Puerto. In 2009 it stopped making its own brandy and had other houses make it, and in 2019 the tax authorities auctioned its buildings and twenty-four of its brands.
View winerySince 1882
A Jerez house founded in 1882, the home of 103 brandy, which in 1930 became Bobadilla y Cía. and came to own vineyards in Balbaína and Macharnudo. It was sold to Osborne in the early nineties, and 103 is now one of that house’s brands.
View winerySince 1780
The house founded in Jerez in 1780 by the Irishman William Garvey, the home of San Patricio Fino. It passed through Rumasa and Nueva Rumasa, went into insolvency proceedings in 2011, and in January 2017 Emperador, the group that owns Fundador, bought its bodegas and brands; the company was wound up in 2024. Its wines are still sold under its name.
View winerySince 1841
One of the few historic bodegas still standing in El Puerto, known locally as Las 7 Esquinas. It stayed in the same family from 1841 and aged fino, amontillado, oloroso, moscatel, Pedro Ximénez and cream through criaderas and soleras. It closed by October 2024 at the latest, when the owner himself declared it final.
View winerySince 2003
A bodega in the centre of Jerez created in 2003 on a 1960 site that had belonged to Williams & Humbert, with three buildings — Pedro de Valdivia, Sacromonte and Valdivia — and some ten thousand butts. Nueva Rumasa bought it in 2008 and joined it to Garvey; it went into insolvency proceedings in 2011, and in 2015 it was awarded to José y Miguel Martín, which now seasons casks there.
View wineryA Sanlúcar house with the Armijo vineyard, in the Miraflores pago, and some seven thousand butts, known for very old amontillados and palos cortados such as 25 GF. It was bought by Pedro Romero, and its company was dissolved in 2012; its soleras are now kept by Bodegas Alonso.
View wineryArcos de la Frontera Province of Cádiz
A biodynamic winery in Arcos de la Frontera, currently closed. It was the only certified biodynamic estate in Andalusia, with the reds Vino Amor and Barón Gracia Real.
View wineryThe house of Carta Blanca fino, on a block in the centre of Jerez between Calle Sevilla and Santo Domingo. Agustín Blázquez gave it his name in 1881 when he inherited the family business, and in the early seventies it was sold in parts to Domecq, Osborne and González Byass. Its Palo Cortado Capuchino lives on at Osborne.
View winerySince 1771
The house of Ponche Soto, the liqueur José de Soto Ruiz created in the late nineteenth century. In 1989 it was bought by José María Ruiz-Mateos, and in 2000 it joined the Garvey group. Since 2017 its ponche has been a brand of Emperador, the group that owns Fundador.
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