Sparkling wine
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Sparkling wine is a wine that is infused with high levels of carbon dioxide, making it bubbly. There are many types of sparkling wines, originating in different countries. The French are known for Champagne, which is made in the region of the same name. In Italy, the sparkling wine is called Spumante. The German sparkling wine is called Sekt, and the Spaniards call theirs Cava. Sparkling wine is made one of two ways. The natural fermentation process can take place either in the bottle, or in a large keg,
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Sparkling wine trivia
- The pressure in a bottle of champagne, before disgorging, averages about 110 pounds per square inch, or about three times that in an automobile tire.
- The longest recorded champagne cork flight was 177 feet and nine inches.
- Bubbles in champagne were originally viewed, by early vintners, as an undesirable defect.
- A raisin dropped into a glass of sparkling wine will repeatedly bounce up and down, between the top and bottom of the glass.
- Documentary evidence now seems to sugggest that a fizzy, or sparking, wine was first made in England, at least several decades before it was produced in France.
- The first sparkling wine party was recorded in 1472.
- The reason U.S. wine producers are allowed to use the European names is that, when the Treaty of Versaille was signed, the United States had just begun Prohibition. The U.S. had no intentions of ever producing wine again, so it didn't sign the treaty.