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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Champagne

Champagne is a sparkling wine produced in France’s Champagne region, which originally produced a still wine that had a certain vivacity. It was in the 17th century that a Benedictine monk, Dom Pierre Perignon, perfected the means of sealing the sparkle in the bottle. Today, a cork is used as a stopper to achieve this. The gas in the champagne is the result of secondary fermentation.

Champagne is a wine-producing region in the far north of France, near Paris, where the signature sparkling white wine is produced. Though the term champagne is sometimes used as a generic description of sparkling white wines in the style of the wines of Champagne, this is an incorrect usage, and the term sparkling white should be used instead. To produce the bubbles in Champagne, a technique referred to as the methode traditionnelle or traditional method is used. In this method, the base wine which will become Champagne is bottled with a small amount of yeast and sugar to trigger a second stage of fermentation in the wine. This fermentation gives off some gas within the bottle, which acts as carbonation.

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