The wine question of the day
What is the name of the Spanish quality sparkling wine?
Your answer:
Sorry, that's not the right answer!
Correct answer is: Cava
Excellent! that is the right answer.
Cava
José Raventós is often cited as the inventor of the famous Spanish sparkling wine, which was allegedly first produced in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia in what is now the DO area of Penedès in 1872. However, the honour actually belongs to others. Antoni Gali Comas was already producing a sparkling wine around 1850. Luis Justo y Villanueva (1834-1880), the laboratory director of the Agricultural Institute in Sant Isidre, who taught some producers the champagne method, earned further honours. At a competition in Barcelona in 1872, three of his students presented sparkling wines. The fact is, however, that José Raventós, head of the...
More