Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Champagne selection for parties



Champagne for your parties!

Finding a light, enjoyable champagne (or sparkling wine) for everyone can be difficult. Its nice to present a variety. There were about equal votes for each of the wines at last night's party even though they were drastically different:

  • Cooks was very sweet.
  • Korbel was subtle.
  • Rondel was extremely dry.

Usually the experience can be anticipated by the percentage of alcohol content. Alcohol and sugar are inversely related, the higher the percentage of alcohol, the more sugar that has been converted and the dryer (less sweet) the wine will be.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Be careful with your generalizations about sweetness and alcohol content. The relationship between disappearance of sweetness and increase in alcohol is not always accurate because both sweetness and alcohol content can be independantly adjusted in finished wines. For example, a completely fermented 14% alcohol content wine can be made sweet by the addition of unfermented juice or sugar, and similarly, a sweet wine can be made more alcoholic by the addition of distilled spirits.

January 1, 2008 at 8:38 PM
Anonymous said...

...just found this little site on tasting Champagne.

http://www.winepros.org/tasting-notes/021209champ.htm

Thanks for your info too!!

January 1, 2008 at 9:09 PM

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