Bubble Watch: Sparkling Wine; Champagne, Cava, Prosecco

When people are shopping for New Year’s Eve, they often ask their local proprietor ” where’s the Champagne”? But are all Bubbly wines Champagne?

No. While most people don’t differentiate between different types of sparkling wine, there are differences.

Champagne

Champagne is grown and made in the Champagne region in France. The wine made there is the oldest and most refined method of making sparkling wine, and therefore the most expensive. The wine undergoes two fermentations: one -before being bottled, as in other wines, and a second in the bottle, when the unfiltered wine with its residual yeast, starts to consume the sugars in the wine-producing CO2 and …to read more