Cava is a Spanish sparkling wine made by a traditional method. It was formerly called Champaña, but in the Seventies it was rechristened “Cava" (Spanish for “cellar").

What most of us think we know about Cava - that it's the sparkling wine for which gyropallet was invented - is false. Cava is the first traditional-method sparkling wine documented to have undergone remuage using gyropallet, which - for the record - is a machine invented by two French wine producers.Winemakers in Champagne went on making remuage by hand, one bottle at a time, while the renowned Spanish Cava producer Codorníu introduced the innovation in his winemaking process, indissolubly binding the name of this system to the name of his wine.