Tag: cava

Going Whichever Way the Wind Blows: The Effect of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on Cava Quality

Is it possible to predict the quality of a wine, for example Cava (Spanish sparkling wine) just by using meteorological data?  Could you predict if a particular Cava would be good quality or poor quality just by knowing certain atmospheric…

Size Does Matter: The Effect of Bottle Size on Dissolved Carbon Dioxide Loss after Pouring Champagne

In celebration of the New Year, we’ll once again focus our blog posts on current research related to Champagne/sparkling wine! Briefly, the bubbles in Champagne and other sparkling wine beverages are created by trapped CO2 molecules during the secondary fermentation…