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A Taste of Wine
Please raise your glass and join me in a toast – Hereʼs to great health and happiness in the New Year . Clink- Clink . Definition of Champagne - Champagne is a sparkling wine produced from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France following rules that demand secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to create carbonation . Many use the term Champagne as a generic term for sparkling wine , but high-falutin drinkers reserve the term exclusively for sparkling wines that come from Champagne and are produced under the rules of the appellation . Four Ways to Make Champagne – There are four primary methods to make champagne : Classic , Charmat , Tank , and Carbonation . Interestingly , the Classic Method typically produces the longest lasting bubbles while the Charmat Method tends to yield bigger bubbles and seemingly more explosive sparkling wines . Tiny tiny bubbles are likely to come from the Tank Method . The Carbonation method is used for those super inexpensive sparkling wines .
Sweetness – A Champagneʼs sweetness will vary , but here are the classifications youʼll want to look for on each bottle : ( 1 ) Ultra Brut / Extra Brut / Brut Zero / Brut Nature / Brut Sauvage : No added sugar ; ( 2 ) Brut : Nearly dry , contains no more than 1.5 % sugar ; ( 3 ) Extra Dry / Extra Sec : Slightly sweeter , can contain up to 2 % sugar ; ( 4 ) Dry / Sec : Can contain up to 4 % sugar ; ( 5 ) Demi-Sec : Just sweet enough , can contain up to 8 % sugar ; and ( 6 ) Doux : Sweet , can contain up to 10 % sugar . ( Growing up my Italian family used to serve dry sparkling wine and then add a sugar cube to the glass . Since I was the youngest child , I was assigned the task of dropping in the sugar cubes . Thatʼs a fun tradition !) Food Pairing – Champagne and Sparkling Wines are typically served chilled and tend to taste very crisp . As a result they can handle being paired with some strong and unique foods . A few of the common pairings that you may see at various parties are – oysters rockerfeller , roasted beet toasts with horseradish cream , crispy potato-andsauerkraut cakes with smoked trout , soppressata bundles with radicchio and goat cheese , and sriracha-and-wasabi deviled eggs . YUM ! Happy tasting !
– Nancy Biggs , Wine Aficionada
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