A lot of what goes wrong with wine drinking and wine business around the world is due to the unfortunate result of french classic marketing history. Everybody gets the impression that drinking wine is too much work, and nobody wants to be an ignorant at the table. So i love when videos show people that it's just fun, and it's not all french fancy stuff. I always tell people to stay in step one: Fruity or rough? Tannin or soft? vineyard made, or "factory to grocery store" large products? When people get that, they get enough to know: a) if it may be interesting and b) what they prefer. That's it. My largest comment so far on youtube. I love you and your book! Cheers!

In respect to sparkling wine, it needs to be said that, when at the same price point, cava tends to slaughter prosecco. You can really tell that the former has undergone aging in the bottle whereas the latter has about one measly month of aging in open steel vats. Even up here in Canada where alcohol is overpriced due to being sold by a government monopoly, you can still manage to get great value in cava. Just this summer, I found this gem of a cava, 2015 vintage, at 22 $. The empyreumatic notes it boasted were properly astounding.

Cava is tragically underrated, had some really lees-ey and wonderful stuff in Barca that I just can’t find here but even regular cava is DEALS here in the states. Cheers from Seattle

Methinks the actual tasting began awhile before this video was filmed.

Great job M! you're making it informative and fun!

Years ago I rented a car in Barcelona and drove around the surrounding area stopping at every vineyard I could. It was a very enjoyable few days and I tried some very interesting wines. When I returned to the United States I had to ship several cases, as well as paying to take a few with me as extra luggage. Most of them made it back just fine and for the next few months I just drained those cases, which included several Cava. The prices were awesome and the quality was just 'over the roof'. Since then I've definitely had a thing for Cava...and Catalunya. Except for a few incredible things I wasn't a huge Barcelona fan, but I was in love with Catalunya. Champagne will always be Champagne, and I love it dearly, but Cava has always been my 'go to' sparkler. Lately there have been a huge variety of diverse and incredible sparklers, from all over the place. We are truly living in the 'Golden Age' of beverages!

Just love following you. Thanks so much for doing this.

Amazing video! Keep it up! Love all this wine reviews 👍

Nice & fun video! I live in Penedes Wine Region, near to best cava makers, and I love cava! Here you drink it before lunch, after lunch :) There are many eco-wineries (which follows traditional methods) with cava masterclass! What I want to say is that, first: you can drink sparkling wine cheaper, second: so you get use to consume it in any occasion, third: you should come here to live it! I can give even more details for a sparkling experience!

I work in wine in France (Languedoc-Roussillon) I recommend Champagne Ruinart or Louis Roederer. In the Languedoc-Roussillon we also make sparkling wines! Crémant de Limoux Kisses from France

Hi I just recently subscribed! I was wondering if you would compare anything to Dom Perignon (Champange) taste to a more economic wine? I've read plenty of articles, but since you're an expert, I defer to your thoughts and experience. I love Cava from Spain btw. I love dry sparkling wines better, but I enjoy Prosecco as well. Anyway, great channel!

Nice tasting, the Oregon sparkler looks interesting. Don't sleep on Limoux AOC or Trento DOC as well.

She's such a character, I love her videos!

I bought campo viejo brut. Its my 1st brut and 1st Spanish white wine. Do you think I’d like it? I heard after getting it that its “dry” and im worried now that i wont enjoy it since im more a fan of moscato and S. Blanc

Madeline, thanks for the video! I love learning about wine in a fun way, your way. BTW, the (dark red/burgundy?) color of your top suits you very nice, good choice!

One of my favorite things about champagne is that cheesy flavor that I haven’t really found anywhere else. I was on a budget for NYE this year and got the Argyle instead of my favorite Louis Roderer reserve, and although it was good, it was missing something for me that I hadn’t been able to put my finger on it until I saw this video. Love it!

Hay just thought I'd say thanks for all your amazing work! A new wine Folly vid always lightens up my day. Just a thought, may be at some point you could do a comparison with some Tasmanian sparkling?

Hi there would you mind doing a video on champagne glasses like you did for reds? Including a reidel performance champagne would be fantastic!

I love bubbles! Thanks Mads for making this vid. 🥂🍾

Thanks again for great info! I would def. try #2 or #3 based on this. Always going to your book for info and learning as i open a new type of wine! Makes it fun to learn 🤓😍🍷📝

Can you aged theses wines

Catalan Cava is one of the best sparkling drinks, forget Italy and France. Here in Catalonia we have awesome Cavas for 5€ (Brut Nature).

Love your videos

What is actually the reason that most champagne uses some percentage of red wine grapes and why is blanc de blanc often more expensive?

I love CAVA BUT only the cheapest one that I can find!!! It’s called Campo Viejo Brut Rose. I think it’s only like $8 a bottle before discounts! Other more expensive ones I didn’t see what was better! Cava’s have that little bitter note to them. I’m chilling a bottle now!

Always enjoy your insight and enthusiasm. Has Franciacorte begun to make its presence known in the USA?

Every time I watch one of her videos I expect her gesticulation is going to knock glasses and bottles in all directions!

how about champagne vs cremant

Madeline, what are your thoughts on Gruet's lineup of sparklers? Very easy on the wallet, but how's the quality? New Mexico!

Brought back a bottle of Cava from Spain and opened it Jan 1 2020...the only good thing about 2020 so far lol

I'm watching this video enjoying a brazilian wine made in the tradicional method (Chardonay and Pinot Noiiiir 😂). Broke my heart seeing you spit the champagne in the mug, if you know the prices in third world haha...

what do I think? well it's hard to compare cars and pasta as it is champagne to cava.... and btw you mentioned Prosecco but only featured the oragon sparkling wine..... so I don't know / they are very different and fun to taste them side by side for sure... between the level of bubbles, clean dry aspects it's all very hard to say and thusly why when asked what is. my favorite wine, I would say the next one :)

Currently on Temporary active duty for 5 months living in a hotel. So getting to good wine is kinda hard. Can't wait to get back to my normal living situation to get back to my wine game.

Nice video.. Why you didn't compare a Prosseco from it's original place of origin like the other two?

Hey Madeleine, lovely video. I'm a wine enthusiast but I live in India, which has a very limited imported wine selection (local ones are very good, mind you) which costs a fortune (a 10$ wine will sell at 25$ here because gOvErNmEnT, which also happens to be a substantial chunk of my wage to spend on a bottle). Now my question is, is there any way you could suggest me to get as much exposure to wine as possible being as frugal as possible?

Cool video! Instructive and entertaining. The camera loves you, you know. I'm from Barcelona, where cava is indeed a big thing. Last summer I visited the Alta Alella winery, where they make the cava you're showing here. It's a hilly terrain, but very close to the sea. I don't remember trying the cava, though it's likely we did. I do remember their Pansa Blanca (A.K.A. xarel·lo - pronounced "shar-AIR-loo") white wines the region is most famous for and some Monastrell reds. Alella is, I think, the only region in Catalonia where Monastrell grapes are still called Mataró. Keep up the good work!

Oregon is a gem of wine industry in US, so elegant and amazing wines they make.

Cremant... ever since we got a few bottles in Loire, my wife is always hunting for it.

Sparkling wine is so confusing to me. Thanks for the video. Wife and I found Treveri Cellars out of Yakima produces several unique sparkling wines. My favorite from them was a sparkling reisling and the worst was a sparkling syrah.....and I'm a syrah guy... I'm going to search for that cava though and give it a try. Thanks for the video..... BTW, your first book is ALWAYS my first reference book I reach for when I want to know something about wine. Thank you for that as well.

Omg 😱 I never noticed the rating on cava. This changed everything.

I've kind of stopped drinking Prosecco and other Charmat method sparkling wine, as I feel for just a few dollars/euros more you can get a nice Cremant (Reserve) or Cava (Reserva). I also really enjoy MCC from South Africa and Trentino DOC espumante, but those are rare in Asia. Glad to hear that Madeline is from Oregon, I have a lot of respect for Oregon winemakers. They seem to be much more terroir respectful and trying to make wines that reflect their soils and environments. Ditto for Washington and the Finger Lakes. I think American wines get a bad reputation due to a fair few California wine makers making overly alcoholic, over extracted and oaky wines. There seems to be a movement in Cali away from that, but it's gaining pace rather slowly, it seems

I should be the last person to correct the author of wine folly…but a folly none the less. Cava Reserva requires 18 months on the lees, not 15 months 😅. Don’t hurt me. I only know cause I just pulled it from my wine Bible. I’m deep diving Cava right now cause I love it.

we learn by gettihg sloshed , i love this channel , love wine folly ,, bizarrly there ie a wine in australia called wine folly ,how bizarre

“I am not a drrewenck, I just play one on KZfaq”

The best cava are from Almendralejo, Extremadura or Castilla -Leon

Please do right a right bank and a left bank Bordeaux! Preferably a st emilion.

I like Andre Cold Duck.

You spat out champagne, but swallowed Cava!

No, didn't know that Oregon was your home state. The red, white and sparkling wines of the "Beaver State" have been a continual source of delight for me over the last year. And I'm finding that, for the most part, NV French Champagnes have a sour component to them, especially in the finish, that I find unpleasant. Maybe if I could afford $200 a bottle, it would be different. Cheers.

Hey girl how are you!

I feel like I’m listening to my drunk book club friends. I love what you’re saying, and what I’m learning, just wish I didn’t question your creds because of your on camera antics.

Heard sparkling wine was made by British before French. As someone whose neither, what the Brits say sounds legit. What are your thoughts?

THIS IS ONE WOMAN I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE A BOTTLE OF KRUG CLOS DE MESNIL , NUF SAID , THOSE THAT KNOW ,KNOW ,

$22! Sounds like in the US you get a massive import tax. In UK we can get palatable cavas for less than equivalent £10 or about $13.

Great video!

bugger proseco ,, my choice is cava or champagne

I dont use the vernacular that you do not because i cant but because i dont want to. What you say smells like cheese or formage i say smells like feet.

I LOVE YOU.....

Anything sparkling is a girls best friend!

I guess this pretty lady started shooting this video after she had tested a couple of those bottles behind the scenes))

Putting Argyl up against the Gaston Chiquet is like comparing a Big Mac to a meal at a bouchon Lyonnaise.

U drunnnnkkkk ??

I'd only drink real champagne with u not wine darling no wine......I'm stuck in a computerised town at the moment so recomputerise

Beware! WINE CLOWNS!!!

Is it just me? Or does she sound kinda drunk?