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Columns – W. Blake Gray

Ten Things You Didn't Know About Freixenet
W. Blake Gray
Apr 1, 2014

Freixenet might be the best-known wine in the world. The Spanish company makes more than 100 million bottles of Cava each year, with more than half of it in the familiar black bottle of Cordon Negro Brut. Most wine companies of its size are corporate. But Freixenet -- which owns 17 other wineries worldwide -- is still owned by the Ferrer family and run as a family business. I recently visited the company headquarters in Penedes, Spain, but I'm not going to try to tell you the Freixenet story per se. I'm just going to share 10 things I found interesting.