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te deseamos Don Duende
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Don Duende's birthday. It's going to be a good day. Bien fiesta para muchos amigos. Cava's flowing............

Factoid: Cava has a 140 year tradition of being produced in Spain. It’s much more than just the poor cousin of France’s Champagne and, in many respects, constitutes much better value than the product of their European neighbours to the north. Cava is a sparkling wine in its own right with its own grape varieties and its own unique history. “Cava” (Catalan for “Cellar”) refers to the underground cellars in which sparkling wines are aged. Many years before Cava became a household name for Spanish Bubbly, it was referred to as Spanish Champagne. In 1970, the European Union banned the use of the term champagne for all but sparkling wines produced in the Champagne region of France. From then on, the use of the name Cava became widespread to describe Spanish sparkling wine made according to the Metodo Tradicional.

It is largely due to the perseverance of one Josep Raventos and his fellow enthusiasts, in late nineteenth century Cataluña, that we are, today, able to enjoy the delights of Spanish Bubbly. Josep Raventos was a member of a group of wine producers known as the “Seven Creek Sages” from the Sant Sadurni d’Anoia area. The group met weekly to exchange ideas about how to produce a quality sparkling wine that would rival the very best of French Champagne. They understood the techniques used in the production of Champagne, but decided to explore the possibilities of using grape varieties native to Spain. The group evaluated several methods of production and invested heavily in vineyards, equipment and staff. In 1872, Josep Raventos, independently, succeeded in producing 3,000 bottles of the finest quality sparkling wine.

Freixenet The producers of Spains most famous Cava