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The grape variety that Blanc de Blancs is usually made from in the Champagne region
What is Chardonnay?
The main grape that Prosecco is made from
What is Glera?
French Cremants are sparkling wines made in what method?
What is Traditional Method/Methode Champenoise?
Name for Spanish sparkling wine
What is Cava?
This French word refers to the amount of sugar added to the Champagne bottle before it is bottled, determining the sweetness level.
What is Dosage?
The term for a multi-year Champagne blend
What is Non Vintage (NV)?
High-end Italian sparkling wine made in the traditional method, often in their trademark "Saten" style
What is Franciacorta?
This French wine region often makes cremants from Chenin Blanc.
What is the Loire Valley?
This Northern California coastal AVA is known for its cooler climate Pinot Noir and sparkling wine production.
What is Anderson Valley AVA? (Also acceptable: Mendocino AVA)
In order to create a secondary fermentation in bottle, a substance known as what is added to each bottle?
What is Liqueur de tirage (wine, sugar, yeast)?
The name for a Champagne house's top blend
What is prestige cuvee? (Also acceptable: Tete de cuvee)
This Northern Italian Piedmontese light and semi-sweet sparkling wine was a big hit in the US in the 1980s.
What is Asti Spumante?
Cremant d'Alsace Rose must be made from 100% of this grape variety
What is Pinot Noir?
The South African term for traditional method sparkling wine
Methode Cap Classique
The Veuve Clicquot (Widow Clicquot) is credited with helping to invent this process of turning Champagne bottles slowly to force the sediment to the neck of the bottle where they can be frozen and easily removed, thus clarifying the wine.
What is remuage?
The top bottling of Moet et Chandon?
What is Dom Perignon?
This steep vineyard is the most highly regarded vineyard in all of Prosecco Conegliano Valdobbiadene Superiore DOCG.
What is Cartizze?
What is Chardonnay and/or Pinot Noir? (But sometimes Gamay, Melon de Bourgogne, Aligote, and Pinot Blanc.)
Traditional German sparkling wine
What is Sekt?
The process of expelling the frozen sediment from a Champagne bottle.
What is degorgement?
The sub-region of Champagne specializing in top quality Chardonnay
What is Cote des Blancs?
If you see Brachetto d'Acqui on a wine label, it will be from this wine region.
Piedmont, Italy (red, semi-sweet fizzy wine)
Minimum lees aging requirement for Cremant
What is 9 months?
Spanish sparkling wine is mostly made from 3 native Spanish grapes, Xarel-lo, Macabeo, and this grape variety (and sometimes Chardonnay too).
What is Parellada?
What is a pupitre?