The cava can room 2008 has managed to captivate the jury of the Global Sparkling Wine Mastersand an competition based on blind tasting, where hundreds of wine products from all over the world participate. This year 2020, the best sparkling wine It has been a Spanish one, prepared by the family Ferrer Room. Here we tell you more about this recent recognition.
The best sparkling wine has managed in this contest to approach a valuation of 100 points and makes it worthy this year to be the Sparkling Wine Master 2020. A highly prestigious award that it was deserted last year not finding a sparkling wine of such a high level. It should be noted that no wine of this type and Spanish had managed to reach Such a high note in a blind tasting.
How is Cava Can Sala 2008
The cava that has won this prestigious award is a sparkling wine from the Denomination of Origin Cava de Paraje Calificado. A cava Brut Nature from the 2008 harvest and aged for more than ten years.
The cava can room It has been made with two autochthonous varieties such as Parellada and Xarel-lo 50% and with old vines and low production. His alcohol level is 12,5º. The production is very small, not reaching twenty thousand bottles. It is a cava with an exceptional integration of its fine bubbles. Persistent in the mouth and with aromas and flavor of ripe fruits. An elegant intense but crystalline yellow color that gives our sight.
Its elaboration follows the method "champagne”. The harvest of the farm is carried out manually. Pressing is done in the traditional way with old wooden press and very carefully. Finally, the aging is also carried out in the traditional way on lees and with manual slaughter to extract the lees.
Bodega Can Sala: the best sparkling wine is born here
The Can Sala winery was the first place where a bottle of Freixenet. It was in 1914 in a place where the Sala family made wines. Currently, the winery has been recovered for the production of Cavas of Qualified Area.
All this has been a bet of the one who was president of the group Freixenet Mr. Jose Ferrer Sala that in 2000 he decided to recover and give importance to the winery. In the words of Mr. Ferrer Sala:
“This cava is Freixenet's and mine's answer to a historic debt. A project inspired by the feeling of gratitude towards those people who made the birth of our company possible. A return to the origins. To the place where my parents, together with my grandparents, made the first bottles of Freixenet. It all started at Casa Sala more than a hundred years ago ”.
Currently, Living room it is owned by the family ferrer, those who were founders of the Freixenet Group and current shareholders of the Henkell-Freixenet Group with 43% of the shares.
Cava of Qualified Area
The Cavas of Qualified Site were born more than 4 years ago to encompass all cavas premium. The rules to belong to this category of cavas are not simple, but they are necessary to achieve the highest quality and prestige in search of the most exclusive market.
To be a Qualified Paraje Cava, the entire process must be carried out within the same farm. The vines They should have More than ten years, with a maximum production of eight thousand kilograms per hectare and its vintage must be manually.
Regarding the production of cava, the extraction should not exceed 48 hectoliters per hectare. As regards to aging in the bottle, it must exceed 36 months and two organoleptic controls must be carried out in the aging process and before marketing. The DO Cava requires a strict traceability control throughout the process.
The Drinks Business publication
The Drinks Business is the organizer of the contest Global Sparkling Wine Masters. In this contest based on blind tastings, the best experts participate as juries and it has great international prestige, especially within the Anglo-Saxon world.
The publication, in addition to informing and monitoring the world of wine, also does it of other alcoholic beverages such as whiskeys, rums, beers ... They also do it from the restaurants and bars worldwide that stand out the most. A publication with high prestige within the world of beverages that attends to its news, the new technologies of the sector and the financial status of the companies in the sector. Its wide coverage and large number of followers give a lot of international relevance to all the winners of its competitions.
Now luck has fallen upon the best sparkling wine 2020 for a Spanish bottle that can thus improve its prestige by winning.
