{"id":235317,"date":"2025-07-03T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235317\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:51:29","slug":"henkell-freixenet-showcases-cava-wineries-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235317\/","title":{"rendered":"Henkell Freixenet showcases cava wineries in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

DFNI<\/strong> was recently on location with global market leader for sparkling wine\u00a0Henkell Freixenet <\/strong>to visit its wineries Segura Viudas <\/strong>and Cavas Freixenet <\/strong>in the Pened\u00e8s <\/strong>region of Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The wineries are located around an hour\u2019s drive from Barcelona<\/strong>, the company\u2019s \u201cdoor to the world\u201d and the familiarisation visit took place following the DFNI Cruise Conference<\/strong> in the city\u00a0last month, which the company supported as Drinks Partner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Pictured left to right: Jep Bargall\u00f3 i Torres, Ramon Olive and N\u00faria Robles<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s Head of Global Travel Retail Sales, Ramon Olive <\/strong>and\u00a0Marketing Manager GTR & Africa,<\/strong> N\u00faria Robles <\/strong>attended the conference and hosted the tours at the <\/b>wineries, that were led by Freixenet Wine Educator & Brand Ambassador, Jep Bargall\u00f3 i Torres<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

DFNI Digital Editor, Jill Sayles; Essence Communications Executive Assistant, Ben Holland and Kounter Retail Project Manager, Callum Todd were in attendance.<\/p>\n

Segura Viudas<\/p>\n

The tour began at the Segura Viudas<\/strong> 11th- century winery manor house and vineyards. The Segura brothers began marketing their own cava in 1969 and today, following its acquisition by Freixenet in 1984, the winery produces five million bottles per year.<\/p>\n

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The Pened\u00e8s <\/strong>region in Catalonia, Spain<\/strong>\u00a0is where the world\u2019s largest cava production takes place. There are nine grape varieties that are allowed to be used to make cava and it must be aged for at least nine months.<\/p>\n

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Left to right: Ramon Olive, Callum Todd, Ben Holland, Jep Bargall\u00f3<\/p>\n

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The Segura Viudas cava portfolio includes Brut Reserva Heredad<\/strong>, Brut Reserva<\/strong>, Brut Rose<\/strong> and Organic Brut<\/strong>, as well as three wines Homenaje Blanco, Hemonaje Rosado and Homenaje Tinto.<\/p>\n

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Tastings of the Segura Viudas cavas included the Brut Reserva 2021 that was given away as prizes at the cruise conference. Ramon Olive noted that this wine is one of the bestsellers at Dubai Duty Free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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At the Segura Viudas cava tasting, from left to right: Ben Holland, Callum Todd, Jep Bargall\u00f3 and Ramon Olive.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in travel retail, Segura Viudas wines are available with Avolta <\/strong>and\u00a0Lagard\u00e8re<\/strong>, with prominence in main airports in Spain and Brazil and also onboard airlines Lufthansa<\/strong> and Condor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Cavas Freixenet<\/strong><\/p>\n

The next stop was the nearby Cavas Freixenet<\/strong> winery that was developed in 1861 and has been producing sparkling wines since 1914.<\/p>\n

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It offers a wide range of both sparkling wines and still wines, speciality cuv\u00e9es and more, from Spain and Italy.<\/p>\n

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Freixenet has historically been the world\u2019s biggest exporter of cava and 60 million bottles of it are produced there per year, of which around 25 million bottles is the Cordon Negro<\/strong>. This is the biggest selling cava worldwide and the top cava brand in the UK. It marked its 50th birthday last year and the celebrations included activations in airports worldwide.<\/p>\n

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Freixenet wines are currently available with Heinemann, Dubai Duty Free, Avolta, Lagard\u00e8re, Ospree Duty Free<\/strong> and some airlines.<\/p>\n

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The group enjoyed a presentation and tastings of some of the Freixenet portfolio<\/p>\n

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A selection of Freixenet wines were enjoyed by delegates during networking events at the DFNI Cruise Conference<\/p>\n

Ramon said: \u201cWith these wines you are making a memories, we are tasting products, but also sharing moments\u2026; we want to connect the wineries with travel retail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DFNI was recently on location with global market leader for sparkling wine\u00a0Henkell Freixenet to visit its wineries Segura…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-235317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114790576720246127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}