If you are anything like I was a couple of years ago then you would have never heard of Cava wine, but as soon as you get a taste of it you will be wondering how you missed it in all of those years. Cava is a sparkling wine which is very similar to Champagne that is made in France, while Cava is made in Spain, and is aged for up to two years before being sold in stores. Anything made outside of Spain, no matter what they try to tell you when they are selling it, can not be rightfully called Cava wine. That doesn’t mean it is hard to get in other parts of the world, for example in the United States there is a popular and widely available Cava named Freixenet, but it is only produced in Spain.

So you see, it is similar to Champagne in more ways than one, both must come from certain regions to be considered legitimate or even legal. Right now there is about 250 Cava wine makers operating in the northwest region of Spain who produce over 130 million bottles of this sparkling wine every year, much of which is headed overseas. Like I said earlier, it is one of the more unknown types of wine in much of the world, and that is certainly true in my area, but it is not hard to find if you look around and ask the right people; there are also many websites online where you can place an order.