Discover Classic Penedès and Corpinnat: Cava’s Competitors

Cava Wine & Its Alternatives What is happening to Spanish sparkling wines The sparkling wine industry in the Penedès wine region of Catalonia in Northern Spain where most Cava is produced has been the scene of in-fighting for a number of years. This blogpost looks at the history of Cava and the most recent developments in the Cava DO appellation, including how Cava has changed its categories of Cava and its labelling. In addition it considers the alternative Spanish sparkling wine formats that have emerged in competition with Cava, Classic Penedès and Corpinnat and what the future may hold for these competing Spanish sparkling wines. A brief history of Cava After the phylloxera epidemic destroyed European vines in the late nineteenth century and the only way to keep producing wine was to plant American species or graft European vines onto American rootstock, many red wine producers in Penedès decided to switch to growing white indigenous grape vines, grafted onto phylloxera-resistant r

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