The Spanish will consume 37 million cava bottles during this Christmas

Spanish will consume about 37 million bottles of cava during this Christmas, a million of bottles more that same period last year, according to forecasts Cava Regulatory Board. President of the Regulatory Board of Cava, Gustavo Garcia Guillamet, explained that this figure is a "forecast", calculated according to sales data from the first nine months of 2011 and "the common variations in the last quarter of the year" that often happen. "Despite the crisis in which we live, the numbers show us that the Spanish cannot do without cava in the special moments," said Guillamet.