People and Cellars
In this space we want to highlight the people who make it possible for the earth to give us the best of its possibilities, who draw the profiles of our geography, make up the margins, landmarks and terms and make huts out of stone and of the terraced ridges.
For them, we save this little space, because inside a sip of wine, there is a spark of the soul of the person who makes it and a little piece of the place where it was born.
Cork
The cork is particularly important in the wine industry for the proper preservation of wine and cava.
Cork is a porous and impermeable material that is extracted from the bark of the cork oak, a species native to the western Mediterranean. The waterproofing comes from suberin, a natural polymer. The Catalan sector is a world leader in the production of quality corks. In 2010, Catalan production was 1919 tonnes, 85% of which came from the Girona regions.
Special cups
Glasses are also important when tasting a wine, although there are different opinions and sometimes fashions mark different trends, we will make three big distinctions, the glass for white wine, the glass for red wine and the glass for sparkling
Unique bottles
The bottles used in the packaging of wines and cavas are also special.
the most common capacity of these bottles is 75cl. followed by the magnums which are 1.5 L.
The greenish color of most of these bottles is also special, it is used in this way for the best conservation of wines, the opacity it provides protects the wine from sunlight.
And finally, it should be noted the difference between the bottles used in sparkling wine (cava, ancestral, etc.) and the rest of the wines, in the case of sparkling wines the glass is more double and the bottle has a shape that more resistant to withstand the pressure to which the carbonic fermentation subjects it and the gas that is produced inside.
