Did you know that the world’s largest maker of methode champenoise was Spanish? Yet at any given point in time, Freixenet has 100 million bottles of Cava (the named created by the Spanish for their methode champenoise) maturing in 27 km of limestone caves under the hills of Sant Sadurni D’Anoia. Carta Nevada, Freixenet’s biggest seller and the world’s most popular methode champenoise with annual sales of more than three million cases, is now available in Australia. Semi-sweet, with a lemony fragrance and a clean melon taste, Carta Nevada sells between $13-16.
