Tag: sparkling wine

Cava Vilarnau Brut Nature Reserva 2018, organic sparkling wine from Penedes, Catalonia, Spain

All Cava Superior will be organic by 2025

The DO Cava appellation in Spain has decided that from 2025, organic certification will be mandatory for cavas de guarda superior, the higher quality of cava. This category includes cavas reserva (with at least 18

Bottles in the cellar of Champagne J Lassalle

Champagne sells more than expected in 2020

This is good news, among the bad, for the champagne industry. It turned out that people, after all, needed festive bubbles in the challenging year of 2020. Everybody thought that there would be a 30%

A crown cap, old-fashioned beer cap on a wine bottle

Ordinary crown cap for sparkling wine?

A reader of our Brief had seen an advertisement for a sparkling wine called Bubbly Rosé which was sealed with a regular crown cap (old fashioned beer bottle cap). She wanted to hear more about

Glera grapes harvested for prosecco in Veneto, Italy

Prosecco rosé is launched

It was expected. The strange thing is that it didn’t happen until now. Prosecco producers are now authorized to make prosecco rosé. Something many have long waited for. A prosecco rosé is made by adding

A glass of sparkling rosé wine

International Sparkling Festival in Frankfurt in June

For those of you who love bubbles, we can announce that the fourth “International Sparkling Festival” will take place on June 14, 2020 in Frankfurt. Over 160 sparkling wines, made using the traditional method (with

Glera grapes harvested for prosecco in Veneto, Italy

Prosecco rosé is launched

It was expected. The strange thing is that it didn’t happen until now. Prosecco producers are now authorized to make prosecco rosé. Something many have

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