FREIXENET

Here we are in the world of bubbles,called Freixenet. The story of this cava producing place is very long and complicate and all the numbers are really impressive, I mean numbers about volume of production and part of market all over the world.

http://www.freixenet.es/default.asp?lang=3

It's is worth to see it.

Let's go to see what happens in basements 35 m under.

Untouched bottles from 1982.

Living in Catalunya I have learned a lot not only about wines but also about cava, and honestly I have never drank so much cava before as living here. It is a part of culture which you can not resist.

WORLD OF WINE OF PERE OLIVELLA

Another season of grape harvest is here. This time we are visiting one of wineries in our neighbourood Penedès called Pere Olivella Galimany. By the way whire grapeaps are always picked up first and then the red ones. Picking up of grapes starts in the begining of September and can finish in November for the late sorts. The hostess of winery is very hospital showing us all the cellars and explaining the process of making wine and cava (that they they mainly produce). So let's see that happens behind this door after picking up the grapes in all those huge fields around.



In these huge tanks is captured the juice of grapes in order cool the juice down to 16 gr. C and to add all the necessary components to make good wine or cava. That takes only one day, afterwards it gets filled in the bottles and brought down in the cellar. Depending of the kind of wine or cava follows its life down in the cellar. The cellar is created in a way not only to be used for storage of bottles but also as guide in a world of wine, allowing us to see some antic tools and unique collection of bottles of wine and cava. The oldest which I saw was from the beginning of 19th century. As this winery is 152 years old and is a business of a family, we could hear an interesting histories how has been developed the techniques of producing wine. Now is the 5th generation which is taking care of this winery.







Every box has a label with the description of wine on it and when it is going to be ready to follow it's way. The every bottle gets it's label and gets packed in boxes. 30 % of bottles produced in this winery get exported. Our visits ends with tasting some cava and buying some bottles of wine to know better this winery. I got a lot of positive emotions as this infinite world of wine and cava is a huge discovery and makes me feel more closer to the nature.