Although under EU law it’s no longer permitted to call cava “Spanish Champagne”, the Spanish still call it “champán” or “champaña” colloquially, or “xampany” in Catalonia.

Supplies of the bubbly wine which is made almost exclusively ... but it will also require financial help from the Spanish government. Cava makers may have been hampered by a long-running drought ...

Alternatively, cava is produced in the same meticulous way as champagne, and is just as reliable (although the local Spanish grapes tend to give a much more simple, neutral style of wine).