Cava: The Spanish Champagne (Sant Sadurní d'Anoia)
One of our favourite daytrips from Barcelona, we planned a short daytrip to sample some of the Spanish version of champagne, Cava. It's basically the same thing except certain rules and restrictions (such as it not being produced in France) prevent it from being labelled as champagne.
The LP recommended Freixenet as the place to go. It's the best-known cava in the world and they give you a cool free tour and also let you try some of their stuff, which is absolutely tasty.
They've got these cool little cars out the front. How cute?!
Their brand and icon
They showed us a video about their history and how cava is made, then they took us on a tour of their caves followed by a train ride through their factory ending in their little tourist shop.
Here's some of the many racks of cava bottles fermenting. Our guide told us not to stand too close to or touch the bottles as some may spontaneously explode (because of all the pressure inside from the second fermentation process). Every now and then on the tour you'd notice a bottle with its bottom blown out.
Some of the best things are free (or for the price of a return train fare)
The LP recommended Freixenet as the place to go. It's the best-known cava in the world and they give you a cool free tour and also let you try some of their stuff, which is absolutely tasty.
They've got these cool little cars out the front. How cute?!
Their brand and icon
They showed us a video about their history and how cava is made, then they took us on a tour of their caves followed by a train ride through their factory ending in their little tourist shop.
Here's some of the many racks of cava bottles fermenting. Our guide told us not to stand too close to or touch the bottles as some may spontaneously explode (because of all the pressure inside from the second fermentation process). Every now and then on the tour you'd notice a bottle with its bottom blown out.
Some of the best things are free (or for the price of a return train fare)
posted by DnT Blog Guest at
11:50 AM
2 Comments:
ohhhh...i wish i had known about this place. looks like a lot of fun :)
how do u say cheers in spanish?
By
case-in-point, at 4:21 AM
Well, you gotta do your research when you go away, that or invest in a Lonely Planet. Free cava and little train rides kick ass. We bought two little bottles to take home. One we had that night ( I think). The other I managed to save until the night of our engagement :)
"!Salud!"
By
DnT Blog Guest, at 2:56 PM
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