Freixenet Cava Factory

admin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:35:23 +0000

Freixenet is factory that produces Cava – or Spanish sparkling wine. It’s actually the 9th largest wine manufacturer in the world. Since I, Andre’a, am not too fond of wine, I never really learned a whole lot about it. But i must say, this tour was very interesting. Noelia and Esteban were nice enough to make reservations for us to go on the English speaking tour so we could actually understand! We started off watching a 10 minute film of the history of Freixenet, then headed down to the old cellars. Here, in the old cellars, they actually still do everything by hand. There’s a lot of turning the bottles – which causes the sediment to collect at the bottom which will need to be removed. If a machine does this, it can hold 500 bottles and finish in 24 hours. If it is done by hand, the process will be finished in 21 days. BIG DIFFERENCE! In the new cellars of Freixenet, all this is done by the machines. But here in the old cellars, where the more expensive, nicer aged wines are made, they do everything manually so it’s more “romantic”… as the tour guide said. So here are some photos from the old cellars.

There were many tunnels to go through… some were quite small. And the walls were usually lined with cave bottles.

Colin took this photo because of the year… this wine is as old as he is!!

by colin and andre’a feldhaus

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Freixenet Cava Factory