This wine is worth the serious hype that it generates and is one of the most exciting wines that we have rediscovered in recent months.
Complex, bright, engaging and creamy, this is the perfect example of Cava production's Zenith. A Gran Reserva classification which shows that the remnants of Cava's best concepts still function to allow the top wines to show their class.
A refined and bone dry style of Cava, this 2018 is delicious exuding notes of citrus, ripe white fruits, and undertones of toasted nuts. The palate is blessed with diminutive bubbles that are amazingly full and deliver superbly precise acidity. This mature sparkling wine shows long and profound sophistication; it is a fantastic substitute for Champagne (without the price tag to match!) and the Guía Peñín scored this 2018 vintage a massive 97/100 points!
It's a wine in which there is no extra sugar added after the second fermentation, making it a Brut Nature and brilliantly appropriate for matching with food.
Juvé & Camps are very proud of the Reserva de la Familia. It was the first ever bottle of wine produced by the winery in 1972. Since then, it has only been produced in exceptional vintages, preserving the legendary status and maintaining quality standards. Produced using grapes from the wonderful Espiells vineyard, it is the embodiment of a stellar Cava, from the vineyard to the glass. An authentic historic sparkling wine that’s well-known and adored by every keen fan of fizz, especially in Cataluña. Made with the traditional grape coupage, an extra-long ageing and with zero dosage, yet, it remains a fresh and creamy Cava. It's quite an amazing testament to the quality of the grapes and the skill of the winery team. No wonder then that this is a wine whose popularity has led to it becoming hugely popular for all sorts of important occasions, all over the world.
The winery’s philosophy has been to use only traditional, high-quality winemaking practices. Its Cava is made in the método tradicional, as is Champagne, meaning it undergoes a secondary, in-bottle fermentation prompted by the addition of yeast and sugar. This Reserva is then aged in bottle for a minimum of of 36 months.
We all love really good sparkling wine. And in a time when Champagne prices seem to be ratcheting up without much sign of slowing down, one's realistic pool for securing great fizz can seem to be shrinking.
But this wine is really, really good sparkling wine.
In a time when Champagne producers themselves may think that the market will forever sustain its price increases, many of those in the subzones of Cava have simply continued to make incredibly high quality wine and, broadly speaking, the prices have remained the same.
All that this means, in our eyes, is that you stand to get seriously good quality for much less outlay. This is why we are very excited to be offering this Cava - it is rich, balanced and utterly delicious.
Juvé & Camps is a family-owned winery located in San Sadurní d’Anoia, a small town in the northeastern Penedès region near Barcelona. The winery's history goes all the way back to 1796 when the company was founded by wine-grower Joan Juvé Mir. In 1921, his grandson, Antoni Juvé Escaiola, together with his wife set up the underground installations at the winery in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia to begin production of the first sparkling wine under the label Juvé. In 1940, Josep and Joan Juvé Camps, the sons of Joan and Teresa, joined the management of the family business and went on to extend the winery and underground cellars in 1960, as well as introducing modern techniques such as temperature control and pneumatic presses. Three-generations later, Juvé & Camps now enjoys a much deserved international reputation for producing top-quality Cava.
Their re-conversion to organic vineyards started in 2010. At present Juvé & Camps cultivate 271 hectares, including 200 hectares of old vines in their largest estate, Espiells, protected from cold north winds by the Montserrat mountains. A spectacular estate where Macabeo and Xarel-lo thrive alongside Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Their most recent acquisitions are the Mediona, vineyards, located at heights between 500 and 750 metres above sea level, ideal to ensure the local variety Parellada produces wonderfully delicate and balanced grapes. La Cuscona, is a small yet vigorous 17-hectare vineyard on level ground to the south of Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, growing richly aromatic Macabeo grapes, essential for the production of top quality Cava.
The winery buildings in Espiells offer an impressive architectural style sitting among vines, similar to traditional Bordeaux châteaus, while the Cava cellars in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia are found in underground cellars the family dug out in 1921. Nowadays they have become six levels of underground tunnels whose constant temperatures mean the bottles slowly mature in racks where they are turned manually.
Ever since the winery was founded, grapes have been collected by hand, a family tradition carried out by generations of grape pickers, linked to the firm for years and very much considered to be part of the family.
