Nothing says New Year’s Eve like a glass of bubbly champagne. Despite the iconic bubbles, champagne is just a sparkling wine made from grapes. This means that it is possible to grow the grapes used for champagne and ring in the New Year by raising a glass of champagne you grew yourself. How do you make champagne? It’s a very precise process. That’s why all champagne is sparkling wine but not all sparkling wine is champagne. Read on for details. Grapes in Champagne For a sparkling wine to be classified as champagne, you must use a champagne wine produced from chardonnay, pinot noir, or pinot Meunier varieties in the Champagne region of France. Planting these grapes is the first step toward making a bottle of champagne. If you want to operate by the rule books, however, there are other restrictions on what can be called champagne. In addition to the […]
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