Buy Cava or Sparkling or sparkling wine
If you want to buy champagne or sparkling wine you have to know that sparkling wine or sparkling wine is a wine that contains carbon dioxide or bubbles. Sparkling or sparkling wine can be made anywhere in the world but the best known wines in this category of wines, are the champagne that is made only and exclusively in the French region of champagne or Cavas that are made in certain areas of Spain, areas marked by the DO Cava, which is the only denomination of Spanish origin that has different areas spread throughout the Spanish geography such as Catalonia, Valencia or La Rioja. The most used grapes for the elaboration of sparkling cavas or wines in Spain are the Macabeo or Viura, the Xarel-lo and the Parellada. Although white grapes such as malvasia (subirat parent) or chardonnay and inks such as garnacha, monastrell, pinot noir or trepat are also used.
Classification of sparkling wines or cavas according to the sugar contained
- Sparkling wine or Cava Brut Nature contains less than 3 grams / liter and no added sugar.
- Sparkling wine or Cava Extra Brut contains up to 6 grams / liter
- Sparkling wine or Cava Brut contains up to 12 grs./litro
- Sparkling wine or Extra Dry Cava contains between 12 and 17 grs./litro
- Sparkling wine or Dry Cava contains between 17 and 32 grs./litro
- Sparkling wine Semi Dry Cava contains between 32 and 50 grams. / liter
- Sparkling wine or Cava Dulce contains more than 50 grams / liter.
Classification of sparkling wines or cavas according to age
- Sparkling wine or Cava Joven from 9 months of aging.
- Sparkling wine or Cava Reserva from 15 months of aging.
- Sparkling wine or Cava Gran Reserva with more than 30 months of aging.
- Mature Cavas made from aging wines.
In addition and since 2017 you can find cavas with the qualification of Singular Cavas or qualified parachute cavas , high quality cavas that obtain this recognition because the grapes come from a certain place that has Spatial conditions and its elaboration is carried out following specific quality parameters such as a vintage wine cellar and with a minimum fermentation aging in 36 months.
How sparkling or sparkling wine is made
There are 2 types of sparkling wines, those made by the traditional or champenoise method that are the highest quality sparkling wines and that get that carbonic gas through the second fermentation in the bottle, such as cava or champagne and those produced by the Granvás system, where this fermentation takes place in large deposits such as the Dasti Moscato of Italy or the Sekt or German sparkling wines. It is necessary to differentiate sparkling wines from gasified wines that do not carry out the second fermentation and to which carbonic gas is injected directly.
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