Valencian Party Pitcher · Cava Cocktail
Agua de Valencia
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The name is a joke: in 1959 a group of Basque customers at Café Madrid kept ordering 'agua de Bilbao', their nickname for cava, so bartender Constante Gil mixed cava with Valencian orange juice and called it 'agua de Valencia'.
Agua de Valencia blends fresh-squeezed orange juice with cava, usually with gin and vodka added, served ice-cold in a large shared pitcher and poured into glasses. It's sweet, citrusy, and fizzy, and drunk in rounds among friends rather than sipped solo.
Why it's made this way: It was created at the Café Madrid in the city of Valencia and takes its name and its orange juice straight from the region's famous citrus groves, making it a genuinely Valencian invention rather than a generic Spanish cocktail.
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