No visit to Barcelona is complete without a tour of the Cava vineyards. The province of Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital, is a heaven for foodies and wine lovers. The Spanish bubbly - or Cava - is as much the soul of Catalans as Champagne to the French, or Riesling to the Germans; and here in Catalonia, Cava making is regarded as a time-honed family-kept tradition, not a cut-throat branding war that are played out by conglomerates. Here in the Cava country, families and traditions still matter, and pledging allegiance to a wine maker is no less a sport than picking a football team.
This isn't my first time to Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, the capital of Cava making. I have paid numerous visits to different wineries and vineyards, but one stood out among the rest:
