Mystery solved: Cavatast starts to be called from today Escumostra

Saint Sadurní of AnoiaIn Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, everyone had been talking about it in recent days and the questions were constant. What will be the name that replaces Cavatast to refer to the festival held on the first weekend of October in the town, which, until this year, only grouped cava wineries? Some neighbors said that not even the mayor of the town, Pere Vernet i Caldú, knew, even though the council itself had commissioned a naming company to find a new name. "Everything is under wraps so that no one knows until the day they announce it," the neighbors continued to explain. Well, today the day has arrived, and it has already been made known: the name of the festival is Escumostra. From this October onwards, we will go to Escumostra to taste sparkling wines, which can be Corpinnat, Cava, Clàssic Penedès, or others that are not covered by any specific name.

With the name, the festival will be able to include wineries not affiliated with the DO Cava for the first time. At a time of changes in Penedès, the mayor of Sant Sadurní wanted to respond to the conditions set by the producing wineries not affiliated with the DO Cava to be able to participate in the festival. "We want them all to be there, because otherwise, we would not reflect the richness of the producing territory," stated the mayor when he announced that they were looking for a new name last April. Two months later, Escumostra, a mix of the words escumós and mostra, is the winner.

A step towards normalization

, is the winner.

A step towards normalizationFor their part, the president of Clàssic Penedès, Josep Maria Albet i Noya, opined, with humor, that he believes the best name should be Escum-ostra: Sant Sadurní d'Anoia could ally with the mussel farmers of the Ebro Delta, and "this way the oysters and the sparkling wines of Penedès could be promoted". Furthermore, Albet i Noya states that, in this way, "the glamour of the festival would be raised a few notches, which is always good".

To conclude, the name change signifies a new era for Penedès. More than ever, the sector is concerned about the future of sparkling wines, at a time when there is a surplus of grapes, when foreign companies acquire large-volume wineries and with a constant transfer of wineries seeking to be sheltered under another name to guarantee quality and payment prices to the winegrower: in the last two years, a total of nine wineries (Viader, Mas de la Basserola, Kripta, Demost, AT Roca, Mas Bertran, Celler Mir, Torné & Bel, and Juvé & Camps) have joined Corpinnat. Be that as it may, Cavatast is forgotten, and from now on we will go to Escumostra de Sant Sadurní.