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CHAMPENOISE
METHOD
The "CHAMPENOISE"
method mainly consists in the fermentation from still
wine to sparkling wine directly in the bottles, as well as in its
subsequent maturation together with its residues (or funds) that
give more body and flavor, and these will be removed only at a later
time rather than after a short time as the "Charmat" method .
Therefore, after the first core "roughing" the wine is poured
directly into specific bottles CHAMPENOISE equipped of neck prepared
for the crown cap.
The bottles are then put to rest some time, from a few months up to
three years or more, in a cool cellar and away from sunlight,
depending on the quality to be obtained.
At the end of ripening, they must be subjected to the "remuage,"
so flipped to bring all the scum and funds close to the crown cap,
and what you get tilting the bottle almost vertically and rotating
them periodically in the "pupitres"; tilt tables with of holes
designed specifically for this task.
When the "remuage" collects all funds towards the cap, leaving clear
the wine above, these are eliminated with the disgorging, which is
obtained by freezing the small part of wine near the cap (and which
contains the funds) by means of the necks freezer : this
consists in a refrigerator apparatus with a tank containing the
PROPYLENE GLYCOL (the only one to be used for liquid food)
that is brought to a temperature of about -25 / -30 ° C.
When the final part of the neck of the bottle there is dipped upside
down, the small part of the liquid contained in it freezes and
incorporates the funds. At this point, the bottle can be inverted
avoiding the turbidity and uncorked: at the opening of the crown cap
the pressure of the sparkling wine ejects the block of ice with
funds and leaves the bottle ready to be finally closed with the cork
for sparkling wine, the cage, and so on.
There are some other simple machines which supplement and simplify
all the operations described above:
The 'degorgiatore' equipped with bottle opener fixed (as in vending
machines selling soft drinks in bottles) and collect waste.
It allows to remove the crown cap and collect it and the ice ejected. |
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