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  Cava

  noun

  a dry, sparkling white table wine produced in northeastern Spain.
• cava
  cava

  noun

  a Spanish sparkling wine produced by a method similar to that used for champagne

Cava

American  

[kah-vuh] / ˈkɑ və /

noun

1. (often lowercase) a dry, sparkling white table wine produced in northeastern Spain.

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cava British  

/ ˈkɑːvə /

noun

1. a Spanish sparkling wine produced by a method similar to that used for champagne

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Etymology

Origin of cava

from Spanish

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Looking ahead, Cava now expects to open 76 to 78 restaurants for the year, compared with its previous forecast of 75 to 77.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Despite the lower quarterly sales, Cava raised its full-year same-store sales growth outlook to a range of 6% to 7%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Champagne, Cava or Crémant are all excellent choices, their bright acidity making them particularly agreeable partners for creamy chowders and hearty stews.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Late last year, CNN’s Jordan Valinsky noted that Cava, Chipotle and Sweetgreen — “the big three slop slingers” — were all reporting softer business among younger customers, particularly those between 25 and 35.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Her name was Mama Cava, and by her the Inca had a son named Mayta Ccapac.

From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

In the shadow of the EU Parliament in Brussels, under a grand white tent filling a museum garden, hundreds of lobbyists, officials and lawmakers hobnob as the cava flows.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

I prefer the driest, least sweet, styles of cava with my favorite being “Brut Nature” with 0-3 grams/liter of residual sugar.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2023

The cava brut designation means it was aged a minimum of nine months on the lees.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

Parkhurst used a tiny gripping tool to grasp the hook and pull the filter up through the vena cava and out through the small incision in the patient’s neck.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

They may extend from the uterus through the internal spermatic, or through the hypogastric and common iliac veins, to the vena cava.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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