What Is Champissage?

Champagne, a transliteration of French champagne, is a sparkling white wine rich in carbon dioxide. It is originally produced in the French province of Champagne, so it is a classic sparkling wine. Only designated wine varieties and methods are used in the French champagne area. Sparkling wine can be called champagne. Champagne is the most precious of sparkling wines.

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Champagne, a transliteration of French champagne, is a sparkling white wine rich in carbon dioxide. It is originally produced in the French province of Champagne, so it is a classic sparkling wine. Only designated wine varieties and methods are used in the French champagne area. Sparkling wine can be called champagne. Champagne is the most precious of sparkling wines.

Chinese name

Champagne

Foreign name

champagne

nickname

Sparkling wine

main ingreadient

White wine, yeast

Whether it contains preservatives

no

Main edible effects

Beauty and beauty, promote sleep, lower blood pressure, relieve mood, strengthen brain function

people suitble

adult

side effect

Excessive drinking leads to loss of appetite and indigestion

Storage method

refrigeration

Native origin

Champagne, France

First, according to color : pink champagne and ordinary white champagne

Second, according to taste sweetness is divided into:

1. The least sweet, less than 2% sugar

2. Less sweet, 1.5%-2.5% sugar content

3. Sweeter, sugar content 2% ---- 4%

4, very sweet, sugar content 4% ---- 6%

5. The sweetest, more than 6% sugar content

Three, according to taste:

(1) Champagne champagne: strong sensory irritation, strong flavor, with shrub aroma, seasoning aroma and red fruit aroma. Suitable for use with fatty foie gras, Parmo ham, canned beef, spinal calf shank or with poultry.

(2) Lingxiu champagne: lively, light, delicate, exuding the fragrance of plants and citrus. Ideal as an aperitif, naturally paired with fish, shrimp and crab. It is also suitable for drinking with fruity sorbet or frozen dessert.

Champagne sparkling wine

(3) Full-bodied champagne: generous, enthusiastic, hazy, with the aroma of round cream cake, cinnamon or honey, often rose wine (its novelty lies in the color and its mellow characteristics. Champagne produced by methods such as non-foaming red champagne) or semi-dry wine (its characteristics are slightly sweeter than dry champagne). It is suitable for drinking with lamb, sweet-salty dishes, baked dishes with bread crumbs or shredded cheese, warm creamy fruit pies, red fruits, and even drink with tea.

(4) Magical champagne: mature, mellow, with high-grade spices. These include special champagnes and rare annual wines (made from the same vintage. Only when the grapes are harvested with excellent quality, the wine produced by the team adopts the practice of vintage. The vintages are all special premium wines). Suitable for drinking alone.

There are four requirements for a good quality champagne:

King of champagne

Dom Perignon is the inventor of the champagne brewing method. He devoted his entire life to researching and improving the quality of sparkling wine, and finally invented a method for making champagne with unique quality and style. Dom Perignon, named after him, uses the finest grapes to make it. It is stored for six to eight years. Its clear color and rich aroma make Dom Perignon the supreme one in champagne. Admired by drinkers around the world.

Moët & Chandon

MOET ET CHANDON

BRUT IMPERIAL

Moët & Chandon has a long history, is the largest champagne winery in the world, and has most of the vineyards in the best growing area of Champagne. The wine has a delicate taste and very fine bubbles. It is a very elegant and elegant champagne, which is highly praised by drinkers around the world.

White wine is bottled, yeast and sugar are added, and the wine is fermented at a low temperature (8-12 ° C) and fermented. The alcohol content is 13% to 15%.

1.How to open champagne

Remove the tin foil from the champagne bottle. Each bottle of champagne has a foil wrap around the mouth. It is necessary to pay special attention not to let corks fly around, so as not to hurt people. When opening the bottle, press the cork first, and point the mouth of the bottle to the direction of nobody before opening the bottle. Find the round part of the iron goblet, here is the opening. Remove the tin foil packaging from the bottle mouth, and loosen the round iron mouth. The purpose of this iron golem is to prevent the cork from popping out. Hold the stopper with the index finger and thumb of one hand, hold the bottle with the other hand and rotate it. The pressure inside the bottle will slowly push the stopper up. Can usually be wrapped with a napkin, so even if there is a problem, corks will not fly around. Rotate the bottle, instead of turning the cork, slowly tilt the front part of the cork slightly to release carbon dioxide, and then you can open the cork without a loud noise.

2.Pour champagne method

After many people have opened champagne, when pouring the wine, because the bottle mouth is too high from the glass, it is easy to cause bubbles to burst out of the glass mouth, which will spill the liquid on the table. This practice is both rude and affects the persistence of champagne bubbles. The correct way should be the tilted door tilted and the wall of the cup down!

Raise the champagne flute glass, tilt the glass body 30 degrees, then close the mouth of the glass to the bottle, and slowly pour a little wine into the glass. At this point, the bubbles will emerge sharply, and a thick mousse bubble will immediately form. Stop for a while, wait for the mousse liquid level to drop slightly, then continue to pour the wine, and let the liquid flow down the glass wall. Maintain a slow tempo and pour the champagne to 7 points. Minimize shaking and vibration, and place it gently on the table. Through this technique, you will find that the vitality of the bubble can be maintained for more than 2 hours.

3.How to drink champagne

After the champagne was poured into the glass, everyone raised the champagne glass and never sipped it. Such habitual movements will make you look very unprofessional, and miss champagne is a unique treat!

Enjoy champagne in three steps:

A. Lift the champagne to appreciate the dancing bubbles, and do nt forget to smell the beautiful aroma of champagne.

B. After drinking at the beginning, you will feel the rich and multi-layered taste unique to champagne, and you will also taste the bright and pleasant acidity of the entrance.

C. Champagne with after entry! Pause for a while, feel the bubbles of vitality, touch it gently, and your mother-in-law massaging your tongue. And the heat of your tongue will stir up more bubbles.

4, watch champagne method

Champagne is also a fine wine that can be enjoyed through the eyes. We like to drink champagne while watching the golden bubbles in the glass dancing with beautiful arcs. Everyone is holding the cup, facing the light source, and admiring the bubble column from the side. But there is an angle that most people ignore, that is to watch the bubbles from directly above the cup mouth. The French, especially the winemakers in the Champagne region, love to admire the bubbles from the top of the glass. Look at the nuances of the bubbles of the bubbles, see how the bubbles agglomerate on the surface of the liquor to form various symmetrical figures, and pay attention to the dialogue between the bubbles and the cup wall. Perhaps, there is still a fortune-telling of love fortune! ^[1]

First, lower blood pressure

Research published in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2009 found that champagne has some of the same nutritional benefits as red wine. The researchers tested a group of healthy individuals, one group drinking champagne and the other group drinking a controlled drink with the same alcohol content as champagne. A blood sample survey showed that blood was diluted and blood flow was increased in both groups. However, the elimination of nitric oxide in the blood of only those who drank champagne slowed down, which means that champagne can lower blood pressure and thus reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.

Second, antioxidant

Champagne, like red wine, contains polyphenols with antioxidant properties, which can eliminate free radicals in the body. Champagne is especially rich in certain special types of polyphenols that protect nerve cells from harm. If you add berries, such as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries, to champagne, you can get better health effects, make champagne look more beautiful, and taste more delicious. When drinking champagne, eating orange, grapefruit or cranberry juice can also enhance its antioxidant function.

Third, strengthen brain function

Scientists from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom recently released a study that found that the polyphenols in champagne can improve people's spatial memory ability, thereby enhancing their navigational ability, computing ability, and ability to cope with complex tasks. In addition, professor Jeremy Spencer, a professor of biochemistry, recommends that people over 40 should drink two to three glasses of champagne a week to prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Fourth, improve mood

An experiment by the University of Oxford found that 20 minutes after the two groups of subjects drank champagne and other non-sparkling wines, the alcohol content in the blood of the subjects who drank champagne was 20% higher than others. This is because the air bubbles will enter the blood faster, causing the alcohol under the action of carbonation to be "pushed" into the internal organs.

However, after 45 minutes, the alcohol content of the two groups will still be consistent. In other words, champagne can make people enter a state of excitement faster without the need to consume too much alcohol, which will damage the body. This is why champagne is often used for party celebrations, it can quickly improve our mood.

Five, improve the skin

Champagne's antioxidants and tartaric acid detoxify the skin and help to even out the complexion. Especially for people with oily skin, the antibacterial properties of champagne can also prevent acne.

Six, champagne is very low in calories

According to calculations, a glass of red wine has about 130 to 170 calories, while a glass of champagne with less than 12 grams of sugar per liter has only 80 to 100 calories; compared to 250 calories of beer per glass And the calories of champagne are insignificant.

It seems that champagne has many effects. Champagne not only makes us happy, but also makes us healthy. ^[2]

Generally speaking, champagne, like other wines, is good for drinking less and harmful for overdrinking.
Champagne is a kind of soaked wine. As Li Shizhen of Ming Dynasty pointed out in the "Legend of the Leather": Wine has the effect of "warming waist and kidneys, staying in color, and resistant to cold." However, in the small champagne that ordinary people drink, in addition to a large amount of water and a small amount of sugar, they still contain a certain amount of alcohol. If you drink too much, you may be drunk. Do nt drink with cold water. . Drinking a lot of champagne often can not only dilute the digestive juice and affect digestion, but because too much carbon dioxide gas can cause abdominal distension, cause loss of appetite, indigestion, and affect the absorption of various nutrients. Can reduce physical strength.

Cold knowledge about champagne

Champagne is the embodiment of romance, festiveness and luxury, and it enjoys a high reputation all over the world. But do you know any of the following tips about champagne?

1.It is Nigerians who prefer champagne more than the French

Although 63% of Nigerians consume less than US $ 1 a day, Nigeria s per capita consumption of champagne ranks second in the world after France s country of origin.

2. Mainly made with Pinot Noir

Although people use three types of grapes, Pinot Noir, Meunier and Chardonnay, to make champagne, Pinot Noir has become the "protagonist" of making champagne.

3.The first bottle of champagne stems from a beautiful mistake

We would like to thank the winemaker who invented the method of making champagne. It was his fault that caused the wine to ferment in the bottle and make a hissing sparkling wine.

4. Champagne was originally called "the devil's wine"

At first, fragile champagne bottles exploded due to the rich bubbles in champagne. At that time, people loved and hated champagne, and called it "the wine of the devil".

5.International events cannot be separated from champagne

Whenever international documents, treaties and agreements are signed, champagne can always be seen. For example, the recent signing ceremony of the Maastricht Treaty was celebrated with champagne. Also, at the naming ceremony of some famous ships and when the English Channel subsea tunnel was opened, people also toasted champagne.

6. Champagne did not become legalized until 1927

Although the wine-producing region of Champagne has been growing wine grapes since the 1st century, it was not until 1927 that the champagne-producing region became the legal region for producing champagne.

7.Five bottles of champagne have as many bubbles as stars in the Milky Way

According to scientific calculations, a bottle of champagne contains about 49 billion bubbles, which is slightly less than the number of stars in the Milky Way.

8. In France, the number of champagne growers is three times the number of McDonald's stores in the country

French people are clearly more interested in their own champagne than their fast food and takeaway. According to statistics, there are 4,629 champagne growers in France, far more than the number of 1,300 McDonald's in France.

9.The amount of champagne is enough for people around the world to drink

At present, there are about 1 billion bottles of champagne in stock. Based on one bottle of champagne shared by 7 people, the current champagne is enough for people around the world to drink.

10.The champagne corks fly out at about 25 miles per hour

Thank scientists for letting us know this fact. The moment the champagne corks flew out after shaking the champagne violently, the speed of the corks reached 24.85 miles per hour. ^[3]