{"id":18009,"date":"2014-01-05T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-pluck-a-chook-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2014-01-05T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:53:00","slug":"struth-pluck-a-chook-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/01\/struth-pluck-a-chook-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Pluck a Chook for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that in Spain a wine company that now sells more sparkling wine than any other maker in the world, at Christmas continued a tradition it’s upheld since its founding during the tough economic days of early last century.<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

It gave every employee a hamper containing foodstuffs ranging from a bottle of olive oil to a live chicken for the Christmas Day table.<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

Amongst other assorted items that employees of Freixenet Wines at Sant Sadurni 45km outside Barcelona (photo shows Freixenet Winery entrance) received in their hampers was a leg of ham, some appropriate sauces for Festive Season dining, bottled pears and peaches in syrup, turrons that are a traditional Spanish Christmas nougat made with hazelnuts, walnuts and honey \u2013 and enough bottles of Freixenet sparkling and still wines to see them through the Christmas-New Year holiday break.<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

And as Freixenet Wines bought Australia’s Katnook Estate in South Australia’s Coonawarra a few years ago, for the first time the workers’ 2013 hampers included a bottle of Aussie Katnook Estate as well.<\/u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

(For those who didn’t want to take their live chicken home on the local train or bus, the company thoughtfully had a butcher on hand to kill, pluck and clear the bird ready for the oven.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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