I recently traveled to Spain on a sponsored trip to attend the incredible educational 2025 Cava Meeting, a momentous event in which the Cava D.O. announced the 2025 vintage of Cava Superior wines is required to be organic.
It is a landmark achievement, but caution is advised–these are the elite Cava wines that are rarely imported in the USA, not the mass market Cavas from Friexenet and Codorniu that you find on supermarket shelves and in big box wine stores.
With a small group of American wine writers, I traveled to visit 12 producers after the meeting and was impressed by their wines. In terms of quality and price, these were amazing.
On the first night dinner, I was fortunate enough to sit next to the biodynamic pioneer in the region, Vins el Cep, which I have since discovered, makes a beautiful, biodynamically farmed (Demeter certified grapes) Cava you can buy now on wine.com with FREE SHIPPING (now through Dec. 9).
Get the free shipping with this code: ELF.
This 2019 Clos Gelida Gran Reserva (aged a minimum of 30 months in bottle) is all estate grown, estate vinified and aged and is $22.
NOTE
I have wonderful photos to share here on this wine and visit but Google's blog software is fussy about which account I am logged in on and won't let me post photos here. Instead, visited my substack to see the photos here.
In the meantime, here's a link to the Instagram photo with Maive Esteve, general manager at Vins el Cep. LINK
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