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Hey welcome. Uh Domain Dave here. Uh again, talking about value priced wine. We've got a uh interesting one, at least to me, very interesting. From Casco. It's uh costs $15.79. I know the cents at Casco always means something. I don't know what 79 cents means. It's the Juve and Camp Grand Reserve of Brute and Nature Kava 2022. Now all those things mean something. Uh Juvet and Camps is a winery that's been around for 200 years and been in the uh the Penades, which is where the Kava Dio is in northeast Spain since 1921. And this is a special wine. This wine without the 2022 vintage dated on it, is on their website. But wineries do a vintage dated bubbly once a good year. Typically speaking, like the um they do a wine that's a house style, they use the grapes and the all the things they do to the wine, it's gonna be that every time. But a vintage dated wine, they're gonna let the vintage speak for itself, it's gonna be different. So it's rare that you get a kava with a vintage date on it, that's a good thing, and rare that you get a kava for under 16 bucks. Brute nature. What does that mean? That means they didn't add any sugar to it. Um as a grand reserva, this was in triage and second fermentation for three years, 36 bucks. Um, how they make the wine, and I'll explain that because it because the nature kind of falls into this. They pick the grapes early before it gets too ripe, and after the first fermentation, the wine is sour. It is, it puts sour patch kids to shame. They they bottle it, put a little bit of sugar, a little bit of yeast, put a temporary top, and take a sip. They put a temporary top in, and that sugar and that yeast go to uh go to town. Uh the yeast eats the sugar that gives off CO2, the bubbles are in the bottle, they got nowhere to go. And normally with cob it's like nine months. Here it's three years. And that those bubbles just kind of naturally just go into the um the wine, and they're happy to be there. You know, they're they they're not trying to escape right away, they're they're part of the wine. And the the longer it goes, the creamier and smoother the wine gets. Um champagnes, which this is made the same way as champagne, a champagne that's three years in the bottle is gonna cost you like a hundred dollars at least. And if it's vintage data, it's gonna cost you another 50 bucks on top of that. So, anyway, so after the three years is up, uh they take a sample of the juice, figure out um what it needs, and they'll take uh a sweet wine and a measured amount of sweet wine, and they'll pour some in there. That's brute. They'll they'll pour a little bit more for a demisec, and all the different levels of of uh dry and sweetness for the whole line of wines. Because they they they have to add everything because you can't make them all different. You have to have to do one and then change them at the very end. Brute nature means they don't add any sugar. This is done right the first time, and it could be, you know, and sometimes it could be a little bit too tight, a little bit too uh, a little bit too net too dry. You can't drink it. Here they got it right. So that's root nature. You don't always see that because you have to get it right. Brute's okay. Brute means they added a scientifically measured amount of sweet wine in it to get to be fruit, which is dry. You can do that every time. Nature, you can't always do that every time. I'm gonna take a sip. Then this is made out of the same grapes always used in uh cava. I think it's a uh Charlo is like 50% of Charlo, 35% Maccabio, and 15% Perillada. Those are the grapes I always use. And here, not only does it have all this brute nature and Gran Reserva and vintage, these are organic on top of that. All for under $16. So what's going on here? Do you want when you sip it? Oh, and the label? The label kind of looks like champagne. I don't know if this is just they've been their label for 105 years, and it just looks that way, or looks pretty good. You get a grand reserve of brute nature. I mean, they this is all the bells and whistles. It does not taste like your average cow. It just does not. It's darker, it's deeper. I'm gonna pour myself a little bit more here and sipping on it. When I first started tasting it, I was like, I don't know. You know, I don't know about this. But as it opens up, it kind of changes. It's tasting different than it did when I first started because it had more melon, more maybe minerality, more herbs. And that's still got that, but it's starting to open up to some more lemons and um a little bit of cream, a little bit of Rioche. This is a really nice kava. I mean, this is if this was a champagne, it's not, you can't really compare the two. It's made like a champagne, not use the same grapes, not you know, not the same vineyards, but this is organic. All the details this wine has, if this is champagne, you're spending one thing. Easy. Here this is $16.99 for a cava. And yeah, um champagnes using Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, which you know and are used to, and this has uh exarlo and macabello and berlotta, which you might not be so used to. But that doesn't really matter. You want to try an aged, I mean, this is you can't go any cheaper to get something that has these many expensive details for the price. I mean, this is um like I said, this is this is easily a hundred feet dog uh champagne with these details. I said kava and champagne are not the same thing, but the details are this is an expensive wine that is cheap. I mean you probably can't get a kava that is more there's more wonderful things done to it than this. And I like cheap kava. I mean we just did a Trader Joe's Kava that was nine bucks, and it was wonderful. This is different. This has weight, this has body, this has details and flex it. You know, it's kind of nice. So there you go, Juve and Camps, Grand Reservoir Brew Nature Gava 2022. It's um the 2022, the the the vintage data one might not be everywhere, it might just be at uh Costco because their website only shows the just the regular non-vintage one. But at this price, if you if you're in there and you just want to try a bubbly that has all these details, just see what's about. Uh, you gotta give it a track. So audios keep it cheap is domain day, uh cheapwinefiner.com. Uh I'll talk to you later. I got a couple of fun wines coming up, so audio skip it cheap, I'll be talking too.