Sleep until you wake up naturally, put on loose and comfortable clothes, go out for a brunch full of starch and have a glass of sparkling wine (instead of coffee) to wake yourself up comfortably?
Congratulations, your weekend perfection index beat 99% of mankind.
As the perfect summer ladder/brunch wine and sparkling wine, everyone loves it.
But do you really understand?
It seems that sparkling wine is particularly easy to get drunk?
Where did all those bubbles come from?
Is sparkling wine as expensive as possible?
Look down, all the answers you want are here.
Penguins also want to know, when do you like to drink sparkling wine?
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Is it easier to get drunk after drinking sparkling wine?
Isn't sparkling wine all champagne?
2 | What else besides champagne?
There are many! Champagne, Prosek, Kava.
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3 | Where does the bubble come from?
It's all carbon dioxide, but it's not from mom.
4 | What is an excellent sparkling wine?
1 | Some practical problems about sparkling wine
Not all sparkling wines are champagne. Champagne is only a kind of sparkling wine, so it is called champagne because a group of hot (ji) blood (zei) farmers (zhu) in the champagne area of France applied for a patent to the farmers' association, stipulating that only sparkling wine produced in the champagne area can use this name. Besides champagne, there are various sparkling wines such as Kava (Spanish) and Prosek (Italian). See chapter 2 for details!
Is it easier to get drunk when drinking sparkling wine? Yes, it's true. A bottle of red wine can go straight, and a bottle of sparkling wine will be thrown into the street before it is finished. It's not because the alcohol consumption is poor, but because alcohol is more easily absorbed by the human body in the case of carbon dioxide. So many bubbles are carbon dioxide! So eat some starch pad before drinking sparkling wine next time.
Finally, sparkling wine is not all white. There is also a pink sparkling wine with a girl's heart, and there is also a wonderful sparkling wine (yes, Goose Jun sold it a while ago). The foaming process weakens the tannins in red wine, making it more delicious and interesting.
Generally speaking, drinking sparkling wine should use a slender champagne cup (flute) or a tulip cup (tulip) with a slightly wider mouth to smell the aroma of the wine. The shape of the cup is as follows:
2 | What else besides champagne?
France
If every bottle of sparkling wine is full of pleasant small molecules, then champagne can probably be regarded as a stimulant. I always said I didn't like champagne. When you see someone opening champagne, you still can't help but take a sip. Why? Because it is precious, rare and tall!
You know, only sparkling wine produced in champagne producing areas can be called "champagne". But it's nothing. One more thing you need to know about champagne:
1. Champagne is brewed by Chardonnay, Pi Nuo in Pi Nuo and Pi Nuo in Pi Nuo. Champagne brewed with 100% Chardonnay is called Blanc de Blancs, and champagne brewed with 10% black Pi Nuo is called black in white (?
2. Other wines are all about the year. Why does champagne have a year? The climate in Champagne region is cool, the weather is changeable in different years, and the quality of grapes produced is not the same. In order to keep the product relatively stable, winemakers mix base wines of different years to produce non-year //NV.
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How about vintage champagne?
In the vintage with excellent grape quality, vintage champagne brewed with some of the best base wines has a strong autolytic flavor of fruits and yeast, accompanied by complex smells of plants, nuts and honey brought by aging in the bottle.
Why is champagne so expensive? Because there are very few. Demand exceeds supply (far), and champagne is generally expensive. Entry-level champagne costs about $40 per bottle.
The sparkling wine produced in other regions of France is called Clemant. The mant common is the Clemant wine in the Loire Valley. The practice is actually the same as champagne, but because it is illegal to name champagne, we have to take another name.
Italy
Prosek is a production area near Venice, Italy, spanning friuli, Veneto, Venice, Julia and other places. The French say that the wine produced here is "the champagne of the poor". Actually, it's not like this, because it's not as good as champagne.
1. Prosek is made from Grilla grapes.
2. Prosek is mainly divided into Spruant and Frizant. Full-soaked Prosek undergoes complete secondary fermentation in a vat, which makes it rich in fruit flavor, such as pear and carambola. The bubbles in the semi-bubble Prosek are sometimes injected from the outside, so the price is low and the quality is definitely not considered.
Besides Prosek, there is also an Italian sparkling wine Asti, most of which is slightly sweet sparkling wine with charming aroma. Asti mainly comes from Piedmont, Italy.
1. Made from 100% Muscato Blanco, it has all the characteristics of white musk-floral, fruity and sweet taste.
2. One-time fermentation in the tank is adopted, which saves time and labor compared with the traditional champagne brewing method, and the price is much cheaper.
3. Asti is different from moscato Dasti. The latter is incomplete sparkling wine, with incomplete fermentation, more residual sugar (a few without bubbles), lower alcohol content and higher sweetness.
Spain
"Champagne for the Poor" has been recited by Kava for a long time besides Prosek! Kava is the most typical traditional sparkling wine in Spain. The brewing process is the same as champagne, but the price is only about 1/3. Why? Things are rare! Kava wine is produced almost all over Spain. Compared with champagne that can only be produced in Champagne Province, the natural price is not high. Besides high cost performance, what are the characteristics of Cava?
1.95% of the notes came from Catalonia.
2. Kava is mainly brewed from three local white grape varieties: Xarello, Parellada and Macabeo, and now some producers also use Chardonnay.
3. Eat Tapas with slips, and don't look too good!
Germany
The sparkling wine produced in Germany is called Sekt. Bubbles are very important to Germans because they even drink water with bubbles.
1.Sekt adopts Riesling, White Pi Nuo, Gray Pi Nuo, Black Pi Nuo and other grape varieties.
The wine label says "Deutscher Sekt" is made entirely of German grapes.
3.Sekt is mainly produced in Mittelrhein in the middle of the Rhine.
After World War II, with the migration of Europeans around the world, the demand for sparkling wine in the New World countries such as the United States and Australia increased day by day, so the New World began to brew sparkling wine.
For an excellent new world sparkling wine, the highest evaluation you can hear is the same quality as champagne. However, this thing is rarely imported in China, so the probability of you drinking it is relatively small. But if you coordinate North America, it is very easy to drink sparkling wine from Napa.
3 | Where does the bubble come from?
Now that we know the classification of sparkling wine, let's discuss how bubbles come from.
Sparkling wine is probably the most complicated wine in the world, because it has to undergo two fermentations: the first fermentation produces alcohol and the second fermentation produces bubbles. After nearly five centuries of development, there are many ways to brew sparkling wine. Although all bubbles are carbon dioxide, they are different carbon dioxide!
The manufacturing technology of sparkling wine is mainly divided into bottle fermentation and pot fermentation, while bottle fermentation is divided into traditional method and transfer method. You may ask: didn't sparkling wine add carbon dioxide to alcohol?
People who eat melons: You talk nonsense!
Actually, it's not all nonsense. In addition to bottle fermentation, there is indeed carbon dioxide injection, but this method is usually associated with low-quality and cheap sparkling wine. Before we talk about the details, let's review what we just said:
One of Bottled Fermentation Methods —— Traditional Method
Traditional methods are used to brew champagne, kava mant clemant. The specific steps are as follows:
Blending: Grapes are picked when they are immature (to maintain high acidity) and brewed into dry base wine. Brewers mix base wines from different years, varieties and villages to make mixed wine (Cuvée).
Bottle: add sugar and yeast to the blended wine, bottle and seal it.
Tired of watching? Have a drink and catch your breath! ?
Aging: Wine is fermented twice in a bottle, and there are two products-alcohol and carbon dioxide. In this process, dead yeast cells are deposited on the bottom of the bottle, which is also called distiller's grains. The fermented wine is aged in a bottle, and the wine mud slowly releases the flavor into the wine. The longer the aging time, the better the quality of sparkling wine.
Turn the bottle: after aging, remove the yeast sediment, also called mud, so that the wine can become clear. Traditionally, wine bottles have been turned upside down to remove mud.
Rehydration: a part of sparkling wine is lost after slag removal. Usually, a mixture of wine and sugar is added to the bottle, and then the bottle is sealed and labeled.
At this point in the story, you need to pause, because if you have a special (Zhu? Ng bi), then the next few methods may be very important.
Wait, fill it up first!
Remember the other fermentation method in the bottle mentioned earlier?
People who eat melons: I don't remember!
Don't you remember being so confident?
The second fermentation method in rotating bottle method
The main difference between transfer method and traditional method lies in the fourth step of bottle rotation. The process of turning bottles to remove slag, directly changing barrels, filtering and clarifying, and then re-bottling is omitted. This method is common in New Zealand and Australia.
Tank fermentation method
Pot method is used to brew Prosecco, Sekt and Asti. It came into being in the early 20th century, when the industrial development made great progress. In order to save costs, stainless steel barrel fermentation was widely used. The biggest difference between tank method and bottle method lies in the second step of bottling. After mixing different base wines, the winemaker adds them to the fermentation barrel, adding sugar and yeast instead of bottles. Sparkling wine brewed by tank method has not been aged by wine mud.
It is said that the sparkling wine brewed by pot method is not as noble as the sparkling wine brewed by traditional method, but it is affordable, and many ordinary people can also drink high-quality sparkling wine. In other words, if there is no special (Zhu? Ng) psychological needs, then it is also excellent to drink Prosek, Seckett and Asti.
4 | What is an excellent sparkling wine?
To judge whether a sparkling wine is excellent or not, we need to consider these four factors: bubble size, durability, aroma and aftertaste.
Bubble size: sparkling wine brewed by fermentation in bottles usually has fine bubbles, while other methods produce larger bubbles and make a loud sound when opening bottles.
Bubble persistence: the bubbles of wine fermented in bottles are also more persistent, and some high-quality sparkling wine bubbles can even last for dozens of minutes. If a glass of sparkling wine has just been poured into the cup, the bubbles will disappear immediately. Probably low-end sparkling wine.
Aroma: Old sparkling wine, especially vintage champagne, will have charming aroma, such as the taste of hazelnut and cream, and the acidity is moderate. This taste is determined by the grape variety itself and the brewing method.
Aftertaste: After high-quality sparkling wine is opened, not only the aroma and taste will change with time, but also the aftertaste is very long.
There are thousands of sparkling wines in the world, ranging from supermarket wines within 100 yuan to hundreds of thousands of noble champagne. What's the difference between them? Is the wine with 500 yuan better than the wine with 50 yuan? Don't worry, the evaluation will be here soon.
At last week's wine tasting, Penguin Jun and his friends risked turning into goldfish and spitting bubbles, drank 12 bottles of sparkling wine and picked out some true love.
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When do you like sparkling wine?