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The best cava to buy now — including a £5.79 Aldi bottle

Heading into summer party season, Spain's increasingly tasty champagne-method cava is the bubbly to buy. Cash-strapped drinkers, including those who hate sticky prosecco and don't want to splash out on champagne, or crémant at half the price, are increasingly calling for cava. Last year we sank more than 17 million bottles of Spain's favourite fizz, with roaring sales of organic cava in particular. The vast majority of cava comes from Penedes, inland from Barcelona, centred on the tongue-twister town of Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, but Rioja can and does make good champagne-method bubbly too — check out the Viña Pomal star buy. Don't expect champagne flavour and finesse from cava. What you get instead is a dry, light, fruity, slimline, citrussy fizz, with less tart acidity