Wine Tasting : Champagne is only from Champagne!
Champagne is only from Champagne!
The concluding session of our 3-part series entitled "A Contemporary Perspective of the « querelle des vins »"
will be dedicated to Champagne.
Speaker
Eric Sautedé
WSET Advanced Certificate L3
Sparkling wines first appeared in the south of France, in Limoux,
with the ancestral method being mentioned by Benedictine monks as early as 1531 — bottling wine partway through its primary fermentation to
trap carbon dioxide gas in the bottle. Then came the méthode traditonnelle in
Champagne, with a debate about who to credit it for in the 17th century – a process in which wine undergoes a second fermentation in the
bottle to produce carbon dioxide thanks to the addition of yeasts.
Champagne has been dubbed a wine for every occasion, a wine about which Napoléon Bonaparte used to say
"in
victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat you need it.”
Whatever the occasion, it is after all a wine, and thus deserves a thorough exploration of all its expressions.
All Champagne wines for this workshop are provided by Champagne-Asia.
Other Parts of the Series: