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Freixenet Fridays Part 2

September 14, 2012 in Uncategorized by traveleatlove | 10 comments

Congratulations to Carol, the winner of my second Freixenet Friday giveaway! Carol, please email me with your contact details so I can have your prize sent. Everyone else, please check back this Friday for one more chance to win from Freixenet.

Happy Friday! Who wants to win a prize pack from Freixenet? As you may know from last week’s post, Freixenet and their MINI Mobile Tour are in Boston for a few weeks. Have you seen them?

If you want to check it out, the schedule for the week is at the end of this post.

Now for the giveaway. Here’s what you’ll win:

– 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, just answer this question in the comments:

What’s your favorite sparkling wine cocktail?

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

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

· Friday, Sept 14 – 9pm-1am at Storyville (http://storyvilleboston.com/)

· Saturday, Sept 15 – 11am-2pm at BJ’s Retail Shop in Dedham (688 Providence Highway in Dedham)

· Saturday, Sept 15 – 6pm-8pm at Avila (http://www.avilarestaurant.com/)

· Saturday, Sept 15 – 8pm-12am at The Place (http://www.theplaceboston.com/)

· Sunday, Sept 16 – Devlin’s Brunch from 10am-1pm (http://www.edevlins.com/)

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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

Beignets and Bubbly

March 28, 2012 in Food, Restaurants, Travel by traveleatlove | 10 comments

Happy Wine Wednesday! How about a post about our adventures in wine country? I promise, I only have a few more to go. And I have to admit, I wish I had many, many more. I love writing about this stuff more than anything.

Let’s rewind a bit, shall we? On a warm, sunny Sonoma Saturday morning, my husband and I had breakfast, set out for massages at a spa on the Sonoma Plaza, and then hit the road to meet our friends over in Yountville. Before we went wine tasting, we had to fortify. Technically we had already eaten, but when invited to the sleek, swanky, and LEED Certifed (one of three hotels in the US) Bardessono with a Napa Valley local and other fun friends, you just don’t turn it down.

We’re no strangers to Yountville, and so we ended up arriving early and wandering around for a bit. The lines out of Bouchon Bakery were bananas, and in general the little town was bustling. You just can’t beat a blue sky day in Napa Valley.

On the way into the property, I snapped a photo of their sleeping vines, just waiting for bud break.

We checked out the beautifully designed patio, a great place to grab a cocktail after work. Bardessono is a spectacular property; I hear the rooms are incredible, though I will likely never see the inside of one; I did a quick search and the cheapest room was $800 a night.

Our friends were inside having brunch, so we joined them and each had a glass of Schramsberg Blanc de blancs. We were going to stick with just that, until we learned that the special of the day was freshly made beignets. Now, I am not one for a sweet breakfast, at all, but luckily the egg and bacon sandwich, banana, and yogurt I had eaten earlier were my breakfast. Beignets? Just a little snack.

The hot beignets were coated with sugar, offering a satisfying crunchiness as we bit into the hot, soft centers. The beignets were served with strawberry jam, chocolate sauce, and caramel. Not a crumb was wasted. And, of course, they went perfectly with the Schramsberg.