Penedes and Sitges - round two!


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March 29th 2008
Published: March 31st 2008
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I took a daytrip to Penedes, Sitges, and Sant Piere. Penedes is only a forty minute drive from the Barcelona city center. Here we took a tour of the Codorniu cava vineyard, where we learned how cava was made. Cava is essentially champagne but it is technically illegal (in the world of wine laws) to call a substance "champagne" unless it’s from a specific region in France. Hence the name "sparkli... Read Full Entry



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aging barrels
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old way of doing things...basketing the wine bottles up and down
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Where the yeast sediments settle before they´re ready to be removed
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The trolly...woo hoo!
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this tree symbolizes the stages of the grapes life
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tasting time! brut natural anyone?



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