Food & Wine Champagne vs. Sparkling Wine

POP AND SPARKLE!

It is the new year and we want to celebrate—not just on New Year’s Eve, but all January long we will be toasting with friends. Most say they toast with Champagne, but are they really? More than likely, they raise their glasses filled with sparkling wine in a Champagne-shaped bottle. It really does not matter, as long as you have a good, safe time. But here is some interesting info about the two bubblies.

Sparkling wine is a type of wine with high carbon dioxide levels, which makes it fizzy. The bubbles result from natural fermentation that occurs either in the bottle or in a large tank.

The fermentation happens when sugar is added to wine, and yeast starts acting on the sugar, releasing carbon dioxide. This carbon dioxide trapped inside a sealed space creates bubbles in the wine.

Many people refer to sparkling wine as Champagne. However, this term is exclusively reserved only for the sparkling wines made in the Champagne region of France.

Champagne wines account for 60% of France’s sparkling wine production (total of 550 million bottles).

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