Are you having a sparkling summer so far? With Prosecco Week, Sparkling Wine Week, and now International Cava Day on July 12, we have had lots of reasons to break out the bottles of bubbly! One of the reasons I love these wine celebrations is that they give us a moment to pay attention to a particular wine, region, or style– in this case Cava– and a chance to review what that wine is all about. Most people know that Cava is a sparkling wine from Spain, but did you know it’s made using the same method as they do in France for Champagne or Cremant but with grapes indigenous to Iberia like Xarel·lo, Macabeo, Parellada? Read more about the authorized grapes here.
I was excited to learn that Spain leads Europe in certified organic vineyards, and that the category of organic Cava grew by almost 25% last year!
wine predator.............. gwendolyn alley 