Sparkling Wines

Question 1

Describe Cremant AC in France?

Answer 1

*Dry sparkling wines by traditional method with a max grape juice extraction=
*2,666 L from 4,000 kg grapes.

Question 2

Give an examples of Cremant from France?

Answer 2

*Aude Cremant de limoux,Carcassone
*Cremant de Loire from Anjou and Touraine
*Cremant de Alsace
*Cremant de Die, Rhone
*Cremant de Bourgogne

Question 3

Describe ‘Tank Method’ or ‘Charmat Method’ ?

Answer 3

*Produced via 2 fermentations, and the 2nd fermentation occurs in a sealed Tanc.
*After 2nd fermentation is complete the wine is filtered to remove the yeast/lees and bottled under pressure!

Question 4

Give an example of Sparkling wine produced by Tanc Methode?

Answer 4

*Henkell trocken Sekt from Germany
*Asti from Italy

Question 5

Describe ‘Ancestrale Methode’?

Answer 5

*bottling the wine before fermentation is complete, producing carbon dioxide gas which is trapped in the bottle.
*No liqueur d’expedition is added, the finished wine is sweet and cloudy.

Question 6

Describe ‘Carbonation’?

Answer 6

*The quickest & cheapest method. CO2 is added in a large tanks, and bottled under pressure.

Question 7

State other terms for sparkling wines?

Answer 7

*Vin mousseux- French Vouvray
*Petillant-French slightly spark
*Spritzing- German slightly spark
*Sekt-German sparkling
*Spumante-Italian sparkling
*Espumante-Portuguese spark
*Espumosos- Spanis sparkling