Holiday Guide to Cava
If your budget can’t afford Champagne, and you’ve had one too many glasses of prosecco this year, consider ringing in 2013 with Spain’s popular sparkling wine, cava.
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Cava is the D.O. (Denominacion de Origen) given to sparkling wines made in the Methode Traditionelle anywhere in Spain. However, most of the finest production of Cava is made in the Penedes region in the northeast, near Barcelona. Production began there after the Phylloxera virus killed most of the red grapes that had been growing for centuries. José Raventos had the idea of planting white grapes, which thrive well in the chalky, clay-topped soil found in the Penedes, and began making Spanish sparkling wines influenced by Champagne styles. As a result, like Champagne, Cava is produced in styles with varying degrees of sweetness, vintage and non-vintage, and rosados.
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Cava on SnoothApril 2013
Used for my wedding. Great budget wine and generally agreeable. Read More
March 2013
This is a great value for the price. AND, if you are an opera singer like I am, this bottle always provokes comment, Very crisp, lots of pep in the bubbles, a bit citrusy and easy to pair with brunch Always festive. Read More
February 2013
Aromas of apple blossom and sweet smoke. Tangy acid and flavors of Golden apple. Nice and easy drinking.85 pts.12/29/12 Read More
February 2013
Balanced effervescence aligns with near perfect minerality and delicate body to mold a melange of lemon rind, crisp apple and pear and a hint of herbaceous loveliness! Read More
Aug 23, 2010
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Aug 23, 2010
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May 11, 2010
Good to see you've featured a few delicious brut nature Cavas, my favourite, i.e. the ones with no added sugar! Might be too dry for some at first but, once you're hooked, there's no going back to regular "brut", which taste almost sweet in comparison. See my Cava mini-guide for more "...lesser-known sparkling gems including these 10 stand-out C...
Nov 15, 2009
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