Marta Casas (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1976) is the winemaker at the Parés Baltà winery, which produces cava and wines. In 2003, she, along with her sister-in-law, Maria Elena Jiménez, and their partners, revolutionized the winery, which, she recalls, was producing "a basic cava." A true wine and sparkling wine lover, Marta entered the Blind Tasting competition, organized by Vila Viniteca, to blindly identify fourteen wines and sparkling wines. She says her fingers were trembling when she entered the tasting room. on the distributor's website to get one of the one hundred and thirty-five registrationswhich were finished in two minutes and fifty-four seconds.

TV3's New Year's Eve broadcast from Maria Cristina Avenue in Barcelona made history. First, because it broke audience records in Catalonia, reaching a 40.5% share. shareThis means that over a million people were watching the Catalan public broadcaster to celebrate the New Year. Secondly, because presenters Miki Núñez and Laura Escanes toasted with a 33cl bottle of Estrella Damm and then raised it to drink it. This act broke with a long-standing tradition at the Catalan public broadcaster, which had traditionally toasted with sparkling wine and used crystal glasses. The sparkling wine industry has protested vehemently, sending letters of complaint to the Catalan Media Corporation, the Catalan Wine Institute, and the Catalan Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Food. For their part, the Catalan company Estrella Damm and the management of TV3 explain that the choice of beer was due to the brewery's 150th anniversary celebration. "Next year, there will be sparkling wine again; they will toast with bubbles as always," stated TV3's director, Sigfrid Gras.

If water is the drink that quenches thirst, and science says so, sparkling wine makers add that bubbles also help with that. Milestones for sparkling wines.