Cava, the Spanish sparkling wine, has embarked on a relaunching journey to boost its wine's image and quality. Known among many consumers to offer highly affordable bubbles, others see it as lacking ...

Caves Vilarnau is located in Penedès in Catalonia, 40 kilometers from Barcelona. The area around here, between Sant Sadurni d’Anoia and Vilafranca del Penedès, is the heart of Catalonia’s cava ...

What’s the difference between Cava and Champagne? In brief, about $50 per bottle. In detail, the difference between all wines amounts to four variables: grape, soil, climate and culture. Cava is no ...

Spain’s preeminent sparkling wine built a reputation over decades for pleasant, inexpensive bubbly, the kind you’d keep a bottle of in your fridge to take the edge off a lousy day. The problem: When ...

A fracture that’s been developing for nearly a decade in Spain’s sparkling wine industry has widened with a fresh defection ...

Pepe Raventós crouched and grabbed a rock to show me. There, in the chunk of limestone, I could discern several small marine fossils, testament to the time more than 5 million years ago before the ...

Spain is one of Europe's most dynamic and exciting wine-producing countries, and that's no surprise when you consider the fact that wine plays a key role in Spanish culture. Here's what you need to ...

Cava, denoting a category of Spanish sparkling wines, got its name from the word for cellar or cave. The moniker is a new one. For about a century after its creation, Spanish bubbly was called ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Cava is the Spanish sparkling wine and today ...

WASHINGTON — For many years, I was a sparkling wine snob. I spent most of my time singing the praises of Champagne from France and occasionally prosecco from Italy. Rarely, if ever, did I think about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Founders Liz and Markus Bokisch in the barrel room at Bokisch Vineyards. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Chronicle) In February of 1999, ...

Historically, cava has been starved of affection in the UK, having been eclipsed by prosecco and never been seen in the same league as champagne. But why haven’t we taken to it more? Partly, it’s a ...