Their home in the Penedès, southwest of Barcelona, is known as Cava country. It is a landscape of rolling hills, protected from easterly winds by the Garraf Massif and from cold northern breezes by the craggy Montserrat Mountain. Freixenet is blessed by nature with a rich red soil and long hours of sunshine.

Truly the perfect place to make its sparkling wine. But not just any Spanish wine: this is Cava. A protected description for a wine, which must meet the most stringent of regulations if it is to be so named. These include using only specific grapes and what is called the ‘Traditional Method’, whereby the wine goes through a second fermentation in the bottle. Each year their own grapes, and those of 2000 growing partners, are brought to the winery in Sant Sadurni, where this magical transformation into Cava takes place.