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Freixenet (Almost) Friday

September 20, 2012 in wine by traveleatlove | 15 comments

Congratulations to Matt, winner of the Freixenet giveaway! Thanks to everyone who entered, and a big thank you to Freixenet USA for allowing me to host these giveaways. If you haven’t tasted their delicious, fantastically-priced cava, definitely grab a bottle the next time you are out!

It’s not quite Friday, but since I have a special post scheduled for tomorrow, the kind people from Freixenet are letting me kick off my final prize pack giveaway today, giving everyone an extra day to enter (and to celebrate the weekend!)

Just a reminder of what you’re entering to win from Freixenet:

– Freixenet Chiller Bag

·4 Stemless Govino Acrylic Flutes

·2 Freixenet Cordon Negro Mini Bottles

·Cocktail Recipe Booklet

·4 Cocktail Stirrers

·Plus 10 sweepstakes entries for the Freixenet Drive a MINI Cooper Giveaway!

To enter:

By entering you are acknowledging that you are 21 or over.

Since tomorrow is the final Friday of summer, you can enter to win by telling me your favorite sparkling wine moment of the summer.

I’ll choose a winner Monday evening. Good luck!

My favorite wine event of the year, Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival is this weekend; I’ll be sure to be sipping bubbly there to end the summer and kick off the fall!

If you are in the Boston area, check out the schedule for the MINI Mobile Tour:

Thursday, Sept 20 – BJ’s Wholesale Club – 901 Technology Center Drive in Stoughton, MA

Friday, Sept 21, 6pm-10pm – Les Zygomates (www.winebar.com) – 129 South St in Boston, MA

Saturday, Sept 22, 11am-2pm – BJ’s Wholesale Club – 85 Cedar Street in Stoneham, MA

Saturday, Sept 22, 6pm-8pm – Avila (www.avilarestaurant.com) – 1 Charles Street South in Brighton, MA

Saturday, Sept 22, 9pm-1am – Cityside Bar (www.citysidebar.com) – 1930 Beacon St in Brighton, MA

Sunday, Sept 23, 12pm – 3pm – Devlin’s (www.edevlins.com) – 332 Washington St in Brighton, MA

Tags: contest, Freixenet, giveaway, sparkling wine, wine

Freixenet Fridays

September 7, 2012 in wine by traveleatlove | 14 comments

Congrats to Heather, the winner of the first Freixenet Fridays giveaway! Heather, please email me at traveleatlove (@) gmail.com with your contact info. Everyone else, please check back on Friday for another Freixenet Fridays celebration. Salud!

TGIF to all of you! How about we end the week with a little bubbly?

As you may know, I am a fan of Freixenet Spanish Cavas, in addition to loving wines from other Freixenet brands like Gloria Ferrer (heaven!) and Tapeña.

Earlier in the year I had the great opportunity to do a tasting with Freixenet employees and even helped with an event for Tapeña. I love that wines produced by Freixenet taste like special occasion wines but are at a price point for celebrating every day.

Freixenet is coming to Boston for its MINI Mobile Tour starting this week, and to celebrate I’m working with them on a fun set of giveaways for the next few Fridays.

The winner will receive the following:

Freixenet Chiller Bag

4 Stemless Govino Acrylic Flutes

2 Freixenet Cordon Negro Mini Bottles

Cocktail Recipe Booklet

4 Cocktail Stirrers

Plus 10 sweepstakes entries for the Freixenet Drive a MINI Cooper Giveaway!

All you have to do to enter (besides being over the age of 21!) is to leave a comment answering the following question:

Where would you take your Freixenet minis?

Complete details on the Freixenet MINI Mobile Tour are below. Good luck, and get ready to sparkle!

Freixenet Launches MINI Mobile Tour in Boston September 6-30
Tiny bubbles offer the chance to win big

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (September 5, 2012) – Freixenet, the famous “Black Bottle Bubbly,” is launching the Freixenet MINI Mobile Tour, a series of effervescent in-person and online experiences with events starring a duo of sparkling MINI Coopers, beginning in Boston on September 6. In addition to the Mobile Tour, Freixenet is also launching a national sweepstakes to win a MINI Cooper, and weekly social media giveaways.

Get ready to sparkle starting in September, when Freixenet MINI Coopers will make appearances in Boston (September 6-30) at hosted events in nightlife hot spots, retail stores, and popular brunch locations. At each stop, fans will have the opportunity to sample Freixenet Cordon Negro, play games for fun prizes, interact with brand ambassadors, and enter the “Freixenet Drive a MINI Cooper Giveaway,” a national sweepstakes offering the chance to win a two-year lease of a brand new MINI Cooper. Fans at each event can enter to win by scanning special QR codes found on the MINI Coopers, posters, bottle tags, and brand ambassadors’ clothing, or by completing in-store entry forms. Fans around the country can also enter the “Freixenet Drive a MINI Cooper Giveaway” by finding online bubble game pieces hidden on Freixenet’s website, Facebook timeline, Twitter feed, Pinterest boards and the new Freixenet Rewards site. Redeem the codes found on each bubble at FindTheBubbles.com for multiple entries to win.

Freixenet will also be hosting “Freixenet Fridays,” a series of social media giveaways across all of their social destinations in which fans and followers can win a new premium prize every week by completing social actions like commenting, tweeting, re-pinning or sharing specific posts by the brand. Prizes include hand-painted champagne flutes from Lolita, Bose headphones, wine fridges and more, with a new challenge announced every Friday starting September 7. Follow @FreixenetUSA on Twitter or any of Freixenet’s other social media sites to stay informed about each week’s giveaway.

After spending September in Boston, the tour will head to Houston (October 5-28) and then the Miami area (November 2-25). For the full schedule of Freixenet MINI Mobile Tour events and complete contest rules, visit the Freixenet tour website or Facebook page.

Tags: cava, Freixenet, sparkling wine, wine

Tapas All Day

April 12, 2012 in events, Food, wine by traveleatlove | 14 comments

Where has this week gone? Just when you don’t want a certain Marathon Monday to get here too quickly, the week becomes crazy busy and flies by! This week has been pretty great; I am busy with work and that’s always a good thing. Even better, I got to spend the day with tapas and Spanish wine on Tuesday, working as the “Media Maven” for an event with Tapeña Wines. This type of work is pretty much what I would love to do all day, every day. By the end of the day and after two events, I was exhausted but fully charged and talking my husband’s ear off.

The first event was a small media event at Kika Tapas in Kendall Square. This was my first time at Kika, and I absolutely loved it.

The interior is very different than sister restaurants Tapeo and Solea. It’s a modern twist on the more traditional tapas bar, decked out in red, white, and black, round booths, and lots of light.

I joined a representative from Freixenet USA and another blogger for lunch and to taste wines from the Freixenet family.

We started off with the Freixenet Cordon Negro and Brazilian cheese bread, which had a cheesy, nutty flavor that went really well with the cava.

We also had one of my favorites, the baked goat cheese in tomato basil sauce with a basket of bread for dipping. Molten goat cheese with tangy tomato sauce and fresh bread is something that I could eat all day.

Another tapas favorite, patatas bravas, were also part of our order. These did not disappoint with their spicy, salty sauce and creamy aioli.

The second wine we tasted was one of my all time favorites, Gloria Ferrer Sonoma Brut. Gloria Ferrer was one of the first places we ever visited in Sonoma and one that we always return to. Their wines are all fantastic, and the Sonoma Brut and Va de Vi hold special places in our hearts. Since bubbles are a great friend to food, they were a wonderful choice for a variety of tapas, including these sizzling garlic shrimp, another must-order for me.

Our feast also included pork loin with blue cheese and mushrooms and lamb meatballs in truffle cream sauce. The meatballs were pretty incredible.

Our meal and tasting also included two Tapeña Wines, the Garnacha and Tempranillo. I like both, but I LOVE Tapeña Garnacha. Fruity, spicy, and delicious, this wine is almost too easy to drink. And to make it even better, it retails for under $10.

Several people in the restaurant stared at our table full of wine bottles and food; it certainly isn’t every day you see three people with four bottles of wine at lunch. We were just tasting, promise!

After lunch I had some time to run a few errands before heading to Tapeo for the main event, a Tapeña Meet Up.

Tapeo and Tapeña put on a fun evening filled with wine, prizes, and delicious tapas.

This time around, we were sipping on Tapeña Verdejo in addition to Tempranillo. As someone tweeted at me after the event, the Verdejo is perfect for a sunny patio. It’s bright, acidic, fun, and perfect for seafood and summer.

I spent the night mixing and mingling with guests; if you came, thank you so much for being there! I hope you had a good time. We had a great crowd, and some great food and service from Tapeo.

Working the Tapeña was truly one of the most fun projects I have had in my consulting career, and it really made my week. Things aren’t always easy in this chosen path of mine, but moments like this definitely make it worth it!

How is your week going so far? Do you get a long weekend this weekend? I obviously am taking a long weekend. . . but I am not necessarily looking forward to it!

Tags: blogger events, Boston, events, Food, Freixenet, Gloria Ferrer, Tapas, Tapeña, wine

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