Sparkling wine Flashcards
What is the Charmat method?
Tank method.
This is there still wine is pumped into tanks with a measured amount of sugar and yeast.
The temperature is controlled to aid the second fermentation and the wine is circulated in the closed tanks by propellors.
The fermentation is completed in a couple od days.
The wine is drawn odd through filters, under pressure, and bottled.
What is the transfer method?
in this method the second fermentation and disgorgement is carried out in bottle (same as champagne) but the wine is then chilled and placed in a pressurised tank.
Dosage is added and filtered into clean bottles.
Used for quarter titles and large format champagne bottles.
What is Method diodes ancestral?
This is the method of producing a sparkling wine by bottling the wine before it has finished fermenting.
The wine continues to ferment in the bottle producing carbon dioxide.
these wines are generally slightly cloudy.
What is forced carbonation?
This is the quickest and cheapest way of producing sparkling wine.
The wine is chilled in large tanks and carbon dioxide is pumped into it.
The wine is then bottled under pressure.
What is German for slightly sparkling?
Sprizig
German for forced carbonation?
Perwin
What is German for sparkling wines?
Sket
Italian for sparkling?
Spumante
Spanish for Sparkling?
Espumosos
Portuguese for Sparkling?
Espumannte
French for slightly sparkling?
Petillant
What does Cremant mean?
Wines that are made though method traditional but made in France out side of champagne
What are other names for Tank method?
Cuve Close
Charmat Method
What type of Italian wine is made via the traditional method , Labeled as Metado Classimo?
Franciacorta from Lombardy
What method is used for Cava?
Traditional method
Using majority; Macabeo, Parellada and Xarel·lo grapes
