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  5. Production How Is Sparkling Wine Made? Comparing the Methods

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Production How Is Sparkling Wine Made? Comparing the Methods

How base wine becomes sparkling wine: bottle fermentation, tank fermentation, the transfer method and single fermentation compared, from lees aging to the pressure in the bottle.

  1. Chapter 1How Is Sparkling Wine Made? Explained SimplyThe Overview
  2. Chapter 2Base Wine and Cuvée: Early Harvest, Pressing, BlendingFrom Harvest to Cuvée
  3. Chapter 3Traditional Bottle Fermentation, Step by StepTirage and Fermentation
  4. Chapter 4Riddling and Disgorgement: How the Lees Leave the BottleRemoving the Lees
  5. Chapter 5Tank fermentation: the Charmat and Martinotti methodsFermentation in a pressure tank
  6. Chapter 6The transfer method: bottle fermentation without riddlingTransferring under pressure
  7. Chapter 7One fermentation is enough: Méthode Ancestrale, Pét-Nat, Metodo AstiJust one fermentation
  8. Chapter 8Lees Ageing and Autolysis: Where Does the Brioche Aroma Come From?Time on the Lees
  9. Chapter 9How are rosé sparkling wine and rosé Champagne made?Assemblage or Saignée
  10. Chapter 10How much pressure is in a bottle of sparkling wine?About six bar

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