La Casera
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La Casera is a traditional Spanish
brand of soda. It is one of the most popular soft drinks in its country.
It is a sweet fizzy drink known in Spain as gaseosa. It can be served as a regular soda, although it is also customary to mix it with wine
, receiving the name of Tinto de Verano
, or beer, called a Clara or Rubia. La Casera is also used to prepare sangria
.
The company was founded in 1949 by the Duffo family in Madrid
and its successful advertising campaigns soon made of La Casera one of the leading beverage brands in the country. In Spain, the popularity of the product has led to the use of its name to refer to any citrus soda, regardless of the brand.
Nowadays it is part of the Cadbury-Schweppes group, who bought it in 2001.
Spain
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brand of soda. It is one of the most popular soft drinks in its country.
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
, receiving the name of Tinto de Verano
Tinto de verano
Tinto de verano is a wine-based cold drink similar to sangria and is very popular in Spain.It is simpler than sangria, usually made up of 1 part red wine and 1 part gaseosa. Gaseosa is a mild flavored low sugar carbonated lemonade, of which La Casera is the best known brand. Unlike sangria, it is...
, or beer, called a Clara or Rubia. La Casera is also used to prepare sangria
Sangría
Sangria is a wine punch typical of Spain and Portugal, also consumed in Argentina and Uruguay. It normally consists of a wine, chopped fruit, a sweetener, and a small amount of added brandy. To be specific, a wine is a light, dry, young, high acid, unoaked, inexpensive wine, usually red wine due...
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The company was founded in 1949 by the Duffo family in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
and its successful advertising campaigns soon made of La Casera one of the leading beverage brands in the country. In Spain, the popularity of the product has led to the use of its name to refer to any citrus soda, regardless of the brand.
Nowadays it is part of the Cadbury-Schweppes group, who bought it in 2001.