[net.wines] Pronouncing Freixenet

rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (01/12/86)

No, it's not Basque - it's Catalan, from Catalonia, the north-eastern
Spanish province whose capital is Barcelona. Freixenet is pronounced
FRAY-SHEH-NET'.
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