The wine question of the day
Which producer was the first to use mechanical shaking of sparkling wine bottles using gyropalettes in the 1970s?
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Correct answer is: Codorníu
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Codorníu
Sparkling wine house with headquarters in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia (province of Barcelona) in Spain. It consists of several wineries and cellars with a total of 3,245 hectares of vineyards. The first winery was founded in 1551 by the Codorníu family in the town of Sant Sadurni d'Anoia in what is now the DO Penedès (Catalonia), making it one of the oldest wineries in Spain. In 1659, Maria Anna Codorníu married a Raventós, which is considered the year the company was founded. Anna was the last of the family to bear the name Codorníu. Following a trip to Champagne in the early 1870s, the direct descendant José Raventós...
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