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Cava becomes geographically specific

Tuesday 5 January 2021
Mestres Cava bottles and pupitres

Zones, subzones, new categories, but probably not until 2022. We'll be publishing Ferran's tasting notes on some of his favourite Cavas later this month.

In January 2020 I contributed an article about the Corpinnat group of wineries and explained what triggered their departure from the DO Cava. Basically, they felt threatened by the diminishing qualitative image of the appellation. Specifically, they regretted the lack of sense of place, because Cava could be made in such an enormous area and yet no geographical specificity was allowed on the label. Producers in Rioja, Extremadura, Catalunya, Basque Country, Valencia and Zaragoza could all...

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