Juve y Camps Cava Brut Gran Reserva 2018 750ml

This complex, serious Cava shows its commitment to quality. Tangy, rich and fresh, with well-integrated, yeasty notes of brioche and pastry and lightly roasted cashew nuts. Refined, small effervescence, flavorful fruit and an intense, yeasty finish. Long and generous, but also restrained. A very serious Cava that deserves attention. Try this if you think good Champagnes are a bit demanding with acidity. Drink now or hold.

• Country: Spain
• Region: Cataluna
• Appellation: Cava
• Size: 750ml
• Alcohol by Vol: 12.0%

Varietal

Champagne Blend

The sparkling wines of Champagne have been revered by wine drinkers for hundreds of years, and even today they maintain their reputation for excellence of flavor and character, and are consistently associated with quality, decadence, and a cause for celebration. Their unique characteristics are partly due to the careful blending of a small number of selected grape varietals, most commonly Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. These grapes, blended in fairly equal quantities, give the wines of Champagne their wonderful flavors and aromas, with the Pinot Noir offering length and backbone, and the Chardonnay varietal giving its acidity and dry, biscuity nature. It isn’t unusual to sometimes see Champagne labeled as ‘blanc de blanc’, meaning it is made using only Chardonnay varietal grapes, or ‘blanc de noir’, which is made solely with Pinot Noir.