The tasting committee from the Cava Regulatory Board, after studying the 2009 wine vintage, has unanimously decided to suggest the Regulatory Board*s Plenum to qualify it as 'very good'.


  From a total of 168.7 million liters qualified, 151.8 have been white wine and 16.8 rosé wine. 2.7 million liters have not reached the qualification required levels. The whole process has last five months, from late October to April.

  The summer means heat, light clothes, informality, sunlight, holidays, open air entertainment and parties. It is also a very suitable season to enjoy our best moments with cava. There are different types of cava for each ocasion, so it is up to the consumer to decide which variety prefers to drink with an appetizer or a meal in an open air cafe or a party in a summer night.


   A glass of cava served at the ideal temperature -between 5 and 8 Celsius degrees-, depending on the cava's vintage and the meal it is going to accompany, can help fight the heat. The carbonic acid within cava helps cleaning the palate after an oily meal and the bubbles contribute to a good digestion. The properties of this sparkling wine make it a perfect complement for summer meals, which must be refreshing and not heavy at all. Experts suggests that cava is the sublimation of the wine and, if we consider the large amount of possibilities of this sparkling wine, they're right.

   The Galician model and the younger of Medina brothers, who described cava as a "smooth, young wine to taste in every ocasión", toasted together to their new professional projects and to the victory of the Spanish national team in the FIFA World Cup


   The model Laura Ponte and Luis Medina, the younger son of Nati Abascal, attended yesterday the Annual Rosé Cava Party organized by the Cava Regulatory Board at the Villa Magna Hotel terrace in Madrid. They toasted together to the summer and confessed that currently they live very happy times.

   The project starts in VINSEUM, the Wine Culture Museum of Catalonia, where students will gather the first clues from the Museum collection. The young detectives will travel then to the old warehouse Cal Figarot, where they'll have to calculate the amount of wine produced by the estate. Lastly, they'll arrive to the modernistic building that host the Cava Regulatory Board, build by Silvio Salvador -the plot leading role-, where they'll have to gather the final clues in order to solve the game.

   Researchers interested in the grant can submit their projects writen in Spanish, Catalan, English or French before 30th November 2010. A jury will select the best project and, once announced and 40% of the has been awarded, the winning project is committed to develop the research during the time limits set up by the grant. A report of the research progress must be submited in February 2012 and a final report next year.

   The Cava Regulatory Board has sponsored the 3rd Redmadre Foundation Charity Event, held on Friday 7th May in Coruña.


   The event was held at 21.00 hours at the Tryp Hotel in Coruña hosted by Jessica Estravez, Miss Galicia 2009. This is the third charity event organized by  Redmadre Foundation, which had the support of the Cava Regulatory Board among many other institutions.

   El Consell Regulador del Cava patrocina la II Beca Cristòfor Mestre i Artigas - Viticultura i Enologia, convocada per Vinseum Museu de les Cultures del Vi de Catalunya i per la qual s'atorgarà una ajuda de 6.000 euros a la persona o equip que presenti el millor projecte d' investigació sobre qualsevol aspecte tècnic o experimental relacionat  amb el conreu de la vinya i l'elaboració del vi i del cava.


   Els interessats poden presentar les seves propostes, redactades en castellà, català, anglès o francès, fins al dia 30 de novembre del 2010. Un jurat s'encarregarà d'escollir la millor de totes i, una vegada s'hagi fet públic el resultat i s'hagi entregat el 40% de l'ajuda econòmica, el seu autor o autors es comprometen a desenvolupar la investigació respectant els terminis que marquen les bases de la beca: presentació d'un informe al febrer del 2012 que detalli els avenços aconseguits i entrega de la memòria definitiva un any després.

   VinoMagazine, Radio Exterior de España and Telemadrid are the winners of the 6th 'El Cava' Journalism Prize in the categories of printed media, radio and television, respectively. Writers Antonio Gala and Joaquín Leguina, actor Arturo Fernández and journalists Rosa María Calaf and Pilar Cernuda integrated the jury that selected the winners of the prize created by the Cava Regulatory Board in order to award the support given by the media to the cava industry.


   Within the printed media category, the jury decided to award the prize to the story titled 'Ici, aussi, il y a des bullles' writen by journalist Fréderic Galtier for the Belgian magazine VinoMagazine in december 2008. In the radio category, the prize was awarded to Carmen Carrido for her story 'El Cava' broadcasted by Radio Exterior de España on 25th December 2008. Finally, the program 'Buenos Días Madrid' of TV channel Telemadrid was awarded the prize within the TV category for a story broadcasted on 15th December 2009.

   Writers Antonio Gala and Joaquín Leguina, actor Arturo Fernández and journalists Rosa Mª Calaf and Pilar Cernuda will be the jury members in charge of awarding the 6th 'El Cava' Journalism Prize to journalistic works published in print media, radio and televisión which contribute to spread the sparkling wine's cultura and its prestige.


   Since its inception in 2000, this award has strengthened its position and with only five editions has reached a great notoriety both for the number and quality of candidate works and also by the prestige of jury members who chose the awarded works.