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Lacava or La Cava is an toponymic or topographic surname of Italian origin from cava, meaning hole or cellar, for somebody who lived or worked in or owned a quarry. [1] It is also a Spanish toponymic surname for two places called La Cava, in Attargona and Alicante provinces. [1] Notable people with these surnames include:
According to Spanish law, cava may be produced in Catalonia. [clarification needed] The Penedès wine region where most cava is produced is located in Catalonia. Cava is also produced in other villages in Aragon, Castile and León, Extremadura, la Rioja, Basque Country, Navarre and Valencia. [3] To make rosé cava, blending is
Florinda (1853) by Franz Xaver Winterhalter La Cava saliendo del Baño (1854) by Isidoro Lozano. Florinda la Cava, or simply La Cava, is a character who, according to legend, played a central role in the downfall of the Visigothic kingdom in Spain in 711. Although she was treated as historical in Spain for centuries, there is no evidence for ...
La Cava is a musical with a book by Dana Broccoli, lyrics by John Claflin and Laurence O'Keefe, additional lyrics by Shaun McKenna and music by O'Keefe and Stephen Keeling. Based on Broccoli's novel Florinda , its title is derived not from the sparkling wine but for the Spanish word for a scarlet woman.
Catalan main sparkling wine producers agreed and adopted the name Cava after the Catalan word for cellar, where the wines were traditionally stored. [5] According to Spanish wine laws, Cava can be produced in six wine regions (such as Aranda de Duero, Navarra and Rioja) but 95% of Spanish Cava production takes place in the Penedès region.
A semi-seco (semi-dry) rosado Cava. Cava is the name of a type of Spanish (mostly in Catalonia but also in other regions such as Valencia, La Rioja, Aragon, Extremadura) white or pink sparkling wine produced mainly in the Alto Penedés in Catalonia, 40 km to the south west of Barcelona, with the méthode champenoise but grape varieties ...
Vino de Pago is a classification for Spanish wine applied to individual vineyards or wine estates, unlike the Denominación de Origen Protegida (DOP) or Denominación de Origen Calificada (DOCa) which is applied to an entire wine region.
Freixenet (Catalan pronunciation: [fɾəʃəˈnɛt]) is a Spanish producer of cava and other sparkling and still wines, founded in 1914 in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, in the province of Barcelona. It is the largest producer of traditional method sparkling wine worldwide, and the largest exporter of Cava. It is chaired, as of November 2021, by Alfred ...