Champagne
making process
How
Champagne is made ?
1:
alcoholic fermentation
Conversion of natural sugar into alcohol, the grape
juice turns into still wine.
2:
assembling the wine
Liquid
from different harvests, from different areas are blend
together.
3:
bottling
The
Champagne is put in bottle with yeast and sugar.
4:
malolactic fermentation
he
yeasts turn sugar into alcohol and CO2. The carbon dioxide
(CO2) cannot escape from the bottle and is dissolved in
the Champagne, forming the bubbles.
5:
maturation
Champagne
bottles are stored horizontally in natural cool and dark
chalk cellar for 1 to 3 years.
6:
dégorgement
During
maturation, the winemaker rotates the bottles every day
to remove the lees.
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