X Marks The Spot

Why you're going to be drinking a lot more great Xarel·lo in the near future.

Last spring I wrote about the new wave of Spanish sparkling wine. For years, most sparkling wine from Spain had been labeled cava, and most American wine drinkers know cava as an inexpensive alternative to Champagne. But these days, the best producers in Catalonia don’t call it cava anymore. You’ll see it labeled as Corpinnat or Clàssic Penedès (or even…