Both are produced by the traditional champagne method of fermenting the wine in the bottle. However, Cava and Champagne have much in common, including their taste and method of production. Others would argue that is more of a rebuke. It has been said that Cava is Spain’s answer to Champagne.
In the words of one distinguished and long-time member of our tasting panel: “It is obvious that this family’s pearls are not hidden, they shine forth in my glass.” Assuredly, this tiny estate continues to do its part to make the world a better place. “How much more beautiful the world would be with a little more art, a little more love and a few more wines like Avinyó Cava.” And indeed, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Senor and Senora Esteve Nadal for doing their part to preserve the traditions of Catalonia, in both art and wine. On the subject of Avinyó’s beautiful wine, one well-known wine critic so aptly stated. Her ceramic works appear throughout the region and all of them are done according to the same traditional methods that were used in Catalonia during the seventeenth century, Spain’s Golden Age.
The masio or farmhouse that originally housed Avinyó’s winery is also the workshop of Fina Via, the wife of Juan Esteve her work is legendary in Catalonia’s. Indeed, the Esteve Nadal family has crafted a jewel that many in the wine trade have rightly called “other worldly.” There also appears on the label a tiara from the church of the local village.
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The inscription roughly translates into the following: “From the must of the flower or free run juice and with the rigor of a work well crafted.” This symbolizes the family’s artisan values and the commitment to the ultimate quality of its wine. On the Avinyó label, there is an inscription in Catalan that aptly represents the philosophy of the Esteve Nadal family. Today Juan Esteve’s two sons and a daughter carry on the tradition of Avinyó, providing only small quantities of exquisite bubbly for export. More than three decades ago, Juan Esteve, the patriarch of Avinyó, planted three varieties of traditional Catalan vines: Parellada, Xarel-lo and Macabeo, so that he could have a fine sparkling wine for his family, friends, and the cadre of distinguished guests who were arriving to visit his wife – a celebrated ceramic artist.
Until quite recently, it was the only wine the family made for sale, preferring to concentrate its talents on making just one wine – the finest Cava in Spain. The Nadal family’s delicious sparkling wine, known locally as Cava, is crafted in the same painstaking way as Champagne. The winery is located at CAN FONTANALS, the family’s home, in the heart of the Penedés region of Catalonia, near Barcelona. The Esteve Nadal family of Avinyonet del Penedés produces Avinyó at the family owned winery. This outstanding little cellar consistently fashions a pearl of a wine, a rare bubbly that exhibits both delicacy and finesse, as well as a true artisan purity for which Catalonia is renowned. Avinyó is, perhaps, the most highly acclaimed boutique Cava producer in all Spain.
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