Travel tips for opera lovers – Jerez and Giuseppe Verdi

On his great trip to Spain in 1862, Verdi also visited Andalusia and went to Jerez with his wife Giuseppina. He visited a Jerez production there (probably Gonzalez Byass) and bought himself a little souvenir in the form of a barrel of sherry!

20 years later, he recalled the trip when he wrote his last work, Falstaff. Falstaff’s very first word is: “Oste! Un’altra bottiglia di Xeres” (Host, another bottle of sherry!).