SPAIN: SHERRY-DRINKING MICE ARE TOURIST ATTRACTION IN JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA.

Record ID: 910659

  • Title: SPAIN: SHERRY-DRINKING MICE ARE TOURIST ATTRACTION IN JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA.
  • Date: 17th September 1982
  • Summary: 1. GV Gonzales Byass Winery in Jerez province. (2 SHOTS) 0.06 2. GV ZOOM IN SV, CU INTERIOR Bodega where glasses of sherry are served from casks. 0.26 3. SV Glass on ground with small ladder resting on it for mice to climb. 0.40 4. SV Mouse appears ZOOM IN CU mouse climbs ladder and drinks sherry. 0.53 5. CU First mouse drinking, second mouse appears and takes his place PULL BACK TO SV mouse leaps off ladder over glass. 1.18 6. SV Three mice scurrying around glass ZOOM IN mouse busy drinking and second mouse appears. Drinking mouse leaps of ladder. 1.57 7. SV Drunken mice scurrying across on floor. (3 SHOTS) 2.13 8. sv cat enters the room. 2.18 Initials RdeL/JRS/ Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, ANDALUSIA, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Reuters ID: LVA138QRZMERA8952JA9UW075I5A
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: While human consumption of Spanish sherry has declined over the past year, the drinking capacity of Spanish mice seems to be increasing. At the Gonzalez Byass Winery in the Andalusia town of Jerez de la Frontera. the local mice get through a few glasses a day of the company's finest produce. In the bodega, the cellar where the sherry is sold, drink is served in the traditional manner from cask. Even the mice receives the best treatment. With tourists looking on, a tiny ladder is placed against a glass of sherry and the inquisitive rodents are encourage to partake. The competition for Liquid nourishment is soon fierce with several mice vying for access to the glass of sherry. After drinking session the mice return to their daily toil ... but not in a straight line. Unfortunately for them, they offer easy prey to any predatory cat with a taste for sherried mice.
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