A cocktail presented as one of the Freixenet Festive Cocktails. What makes the Freixenet Mediterranean 75 interesting is that it was drunk in Rick’s Bar AmericainRead More

What I really puts me off making cocktails at home is the incredible list of ingredients you have to buy; so few stores stock half bottlesRead More

I rather like the contrast between the bright and new, ultra-modern spotlights and the rough-hewn, cellar ceiling still in place after hundreds of years of use.Read More

A dusty corner of the Freixenet winery cellar, visited as part of an excellent tour earlier this year (written up as Visiting Freixenet). The Freixenet WineryRead More

A fitting finale to my run of posts covering a rather excellent trip to Barcelona and Freixenet is this panorama of the Freixenet owned Segura ViudasRead More

Here’s another grape variety to tick off the list – Trepat; you’ll only find it growing in North-East Spain where its destiny is to end upRead More

You have to hand it to that Emma Dawson, the wine buyer at M&S; she certainly isn’t shy at bringing in ‘farkli bir şey’* (The teamRead More

It might just be down to me having the attention span of a gnat or maybe it was the translation from Catalan and Spanish to aRead More

Sadly you cant, as a member of the ‘public’ visit this impressive Moet-built and Moet-soon-sold vineyard-surrounded edifice. This is the winery for the René Barbier rangeRead More

Rather pleased with this photo; so chuffed in fact that rather than keeping it for a Sunday Wine Shot slot later in the year, as originallyRead More