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Quotes about sparkling wines

The world of sparkling wines has often inspired…

“After victory, you deserve it; after defeat, you need it” Napoleon Bonaparte

“A friend without a sense of humour is like wine without bubbles” – Nadine de Rothschild

“Champagne is a necessity in defeat, and a must in victory” – Winston Churchill

“I drink it when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. If I’m with others, I feel it’s my duty. If I’m not hungry, I play around with it, and I drink it when I’m ravenous. Otherwise, I never touch it, unless I’m thirsty.” Lily Bollinger

“I only drink champagne on two occasions: when I’m in love and when I’m not” – Coco Chanel 

What is a Pet’ Nat’, natural sparkling wine or the traditional method?

All these terms are synonyms.

This is a sparkling wine in which the bubbles are produced by simple bottle fermentation. 

During the winemaking process, the wine is bottled whilst it is still fermenting. Trapped inside the bottle, the wine will complete its fermentation, thereby creating natural effervescence through anaerobic fermentation.

The Pet’Nat’ is ready! You can then choose whether or not to disgorge it in order to remove the lees that have settled at the bottom of the bottle (residue from dead yeast cells) 

Pet’Nat’s are renowned as delicious, festive, thirst-quenching sparkling wines that deliver instant pleasure!… 

What is the traditional method, or the Champagne method? 

The traditional method is a process for making sparkling wines that involves a second fermentation in the bottle of a still wine after the addition of a dosage (sugar and yeast). A second fermentation therefore takes place inside the bottle (known as ‘prise de mousse’). The bottles are then placed on racks to allow the lees to settle (= riddling). They are then disgorged to remove the residues, and the final stage involves topping up the liquid lost during disgorging with a dosage. 

The traditional method of producing sparkling wine is identical to the “méthode champenoise” used to produce champagne. EU regulations prohibit the use of the term “méthode champenoise” on the labels of sparkling wines other than champagne.