{"id":10770,"date":"2015-01-01T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:52:18","slug":"celebrated-the-new-year-with-a-cava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/01\/celebrated-the-new-year-with-a-cava\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated the New Year with a Cava"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/010115a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10771\" style=\"border: 5px solid transparent;\" alt=\"010115a\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/010115a.jpg\" width=\"207\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a>Since attending the 50 Great Cavas media tour last October, I have had several cavas over the months. I am quite impressed with the sparkling wines especially those produced from native grapes Xarel-lo, Macabeo and Parellada. We are visiting our daughter and son-in-law in the Dayton area of Ohio and I forgot to bring a bottle of cava I brought back from Spain. We went to a wine shop in search for a cava and were rather disappointed in what they had to offer. It seems that cavas have not made much of a splash in the middle of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were a couple made predominantly of Chardonnay, I wasn\u2019t interested in those. I did find one made from Xarel-lo, Macabeo and Parellada and decided to give it a try. The store had a 2012 Naver\u00e1n Brut. The blend was 50% Xarel-lo, 30% Macabeo and 20% Parellada. The yellow color sparkling wine had an abundance of bubbles that persisted even though we were drinking the cava in a red wine glass. There was citrus on the aroma and taste. The 11.5% alcohol wine retailed for $14 at a local Dayton wine shop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the cava producers in Spain should mount a pr campaign in the United States similar to the wine producers in Rioja. Cavas are affordable and offer a variety of styles made with several different grape varieties. Throughout the next few months, our attention will move to champagnes. Kathy and I are attending the International Wine Tourism Conference in Champagne, France in April.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nTerry<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Celebrated the New Year with a Cava\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=10770\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since attending the 50 Great Cavas media tour last October, I have had several cavas over the months. I am quite impressed with the sparkling wines especially those produced from native grapes Xarel-lo, Macabeo and Parellada. We are visiting our daughter and son-in-law in the Dayton area of Ohio and I forgot to bring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[1394,915,98],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-cava","tag-new-years","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10772,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions\/10772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}