Juvé & Camps, Cava (Catalonia, Spain) 2014

Made entirely from estate-grown Pinot Noir, this is finished with 8 grams per liter of residual sugar.  That’s a low dosage in global terms, but a little higher than normal for Cava, and the level is set to counteract a slight grippy bitterness resulting from a cold-soak maceration used to extract color and flavor for this bottling.  By far the juiciest and fruitiest of the sparklers from Juvé & Camps, this is among the most “winey” of Cavas you’ll find, and with much less earthiness than usual, it will strike many tasters as being more about Pinot than Cava.