Russian champagne is sparkling wine, manufactured and sold in Russia. The demand for sparkling wine in the country exceeds a quarter of a million bottles per year. New Year's table without sparkling bubbles of a light foaming cold drink is equivalent to the Olympic stadium without a burning torch.

Manufacturers of Russian champagne

Popular products often cause gaze lovers to participate in business. But, not having technologies, technical standards, wine raw materials and winemakers, unscrupulous manufacturers drive a falsified product to the market.

To curb the emergence of poor-quality wine products in the consumer market in 2010, the Association of Sparkling Wine manufacturers has been created. The Association includes 13 enterprises in Russia and one enterprise of Belarus.

Consumers are confident that the presence on the label of the manufacturer from the list of participants of the Association is a guarantee of the manufacture of Russian champagne in compliance with technical standards.

Competition of winemakers

In Russia, winemakers annually hold a business meeting. The category of sparkling drinks choose the best Russian champagne of the classical method and the tank method of manufacture. In 2016, two winners were awarded, respectively: Russian champagne from the Crimea Collector's White Dry Golden Riesling and Krasnodar Sparkling Wine Brut Blanc de Blanc (Fanagoria) 2015.

Private consumers in admiration from "Golden Riesling". Buyers will not be stored for compliments: "good", "tasty", "unearthly bliss", "the most delicious champagne" and "The best commemorative gift from the Crimea."

The aroma "Blan de Blan" fascinated peach, pear and apples fruit notes. Buyers praise soft and fresh taste with hints of honey and spices. Surprisingly combines well with cold snacks, and with hot seafood dishes.

Criteria for the classification of sparkling drink

The choice of manufacturer does not mean the best search result. Consider three more options for the classification of sparkling wine:

• by price,
• in popularity
• by quality.

In each class there is a product, the best one by the main parameter.

The price plays a major role in an ordinary consumer. It's nice to surprise the girl with a collectible wine. It is important to remember that there is no high-quality champagne for 150 rubles, it is a drink from a different category. The cost of Russian champagne, for example, at the Abrau-Durso winery, varies from 435 rubles for 0.75 liters of white or pink semi-sweet to 1875 rubles. Collection variety Breut.

Domestic show-business figures note the quality of the Abrau-Durso champagne, a refreshing taste, lack of headaches after the inspection.

More often champagne acquire for the celebration - to emphasize the importance of the moment. The festive feast in a friendly company begins with a Fuzter of sparkling wine.

For dinner in a chamber atmosphere, for example, a decisive date or suggestion of a hand and heart, champagne is indispensable. It is important not to be mistaken in the choice of drink. As in any choice, experience is important here. Articles on the Internet give theoretical idea of \u200b\u200bthe studied drink. The theory believes the practice so that at the crucial moment the wine did not presented an "sour surprise".

Learning Sommelier skills

Proper tasting helps a competent selection of sparkling drink. Wine selection criteria:

1. Foam.
2. Aroma.
3. Taste.
4. Aftertaste.

First we delight the gaze. Then the delightful aroma captivates and pulls to try the drink to taste. And if, after a few minutes, there is no unpleasant taste collision, and on the contrary, the desire to repeat the sip of wine awakens, then the aftertaste convincingly proved the quality of the beverage.

Champagne poured on the wall of the sloped glass with a light jet, so that mousse is formed on the surface - light resistant foam, and the drink tastor admired the game of small gas bubbles.

Feel the flavor of wine. Spend a simple test - a pleasant or unpleasant smell. Even if the advertisement promises a refined aroma, and the consumer smell does not like, then evaluate the drink from the list of preferences, try the wine of another brand.

Pay attention to the North Venice champagne. The winemakers of the company uses raw materials from Spain and South Africa. There grapes ripen by 100%. To create a drink, use all types of Pinot, but the chief grapes - Chardonon. The color of the beverage made on the basis of Chardonnay, from light yellow to dark pink. Consumers celebrate a wide range of taste: colors, citrus, quince and honey.

Folk wisdom, which turned into a newspaper stamp, but the remaining wisdom: there is no comrade taste and color. But if you leave an artistic description of the taste quality of wine aside, the tastor notes, firstly, gives vodka drink or not. If you give, then this is not champagne. The second observed sign of taste is sweetness. Each person has its own sweet measure, but you will have to choose at least two options: sweet - unsweetened wine.

After several sips of the drink, rate the aftertaste. What grape variety is remembered if the tongue knit tuning stuffs of the barrel, where the wine ripened. Classify persistent and unstable, weak and strong aftertaste. Try to evaluate and remember, when forming a collection of champagne wines will be useful.

Case - in sparkling bubbles

The Russian Quality System Organization and the Federal Service for Regulating the Alcohol Market before the New Year holidays were investigated by Russian champagne on the counters of Russian shops. Checked compliance with GOST for thirty parameters. Critics did not withstand 17 product items from 56 studied. First remark - to the method of filling the drink with carbon dioxide. Yes, in the country since 2012, artificial gazing of wine is allowed, half the needy production of sparkling wine. But this is not champagne. According to GOST, champagne is filled with carbon dioxide during natural fermentation.

The second non-compliance with the standard is not a corresponding quality of primary raw materials in the samples of the beverage from the "folk segment". Unfair, from the point of view of manufacturers, the establishment of excise taxes directly affects the cost of production. You have to get out, according to the expression of representatives of wine manufacturers.

The third parameter is the content of alcohol. In the folded samples, the percentage of alcohol was recorded either less than the "Crimean Sparkling", or above the norm, like the White Semi-sweet "Royal Traditions". The contents did not match the markings on the wine bottle.

Consumers called the mediocre taste of sparkling wines "Royal Traditions" of the company "Ariant". Even the design of the label does not withstand critics.

The opinion of professional tastors about the unsatisfactory quality of other sparkling wine of the Rostov Combine of champagne wines: "Too a lot of sugar, an essence is felt ... too sweet ... Plastic taste ... Gorky aftertaste, dubious smell."

Degrees - remember the main

About. - This is a reduction in alcohol measurement unit in a wine drink, "Volume Percentage".

The degree of wine is determined by the place of manufacture of drink and its brand.

The parameters of Russian champagne are shown in the table.

Sparkling cooking from his own raw materials

Russian champagne white is made from white technical varieties of Chardonnay grapes, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc.

These varieties are acclimatized to the conditions of the Krasnodar Territory, the Crimea, the Stavropol Territory. Grow wine varieties of grapes and in Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine.

Brut or not brother, that's the question

Russian sparkling wine varies with degrees and the number of sugar. Classification of wines on the basis of sugarity is as follows:

• Brut Zero - 6 g / l.
• Brut - up to 15 g / l.
• Extra Drives - from 12 to 20 g / l.
• Semi-sweet - 17-35 g / l.
• Sweet - 33-50 g / g.

This is just that says - Russian semi-sweet champagne. In fact, 35 grams of sugar are four teaspoons with a slide. People, jealously monitoring over the weight and figure, it is known that sweet champagne is a calorie product.

According to the rigid rules established by the European Union on the control of the product name at the place of origin, only drinks released in a specific French province have the right to be called "champagne". It is they who are on their label a sign of their noble pedigree - the letter Doc. All other drinks, even if they accurately copy the blend and production technology, are called "sparkling wines". In some countries, they have their own names. In Catalonia, this is "Kava", in Italy - "Master", in Languedoc - "Blankets". And these drinks also wear an elite DOC abbreviation. But often the laws are not written by manufacturers. And in the old manner, they are called, more or less in the technology that Abbat Perignon invented. Some drinks are a frank borde from spent materials, carbonated artificially. But there are among domestic sparkling wines and worthy to serve them at the festive table. In this article, we will look at the top 10 beverages of the nomination "Elite Champagne".

Veuve Clicquot ("Kliko widow")

As the British say, Ladies First. But not the courtesy of gentlemen makes us skip the lady forward. This drink really deserves the first position in the "Elite Champagne" rating. Monsiery Kliko, not a remarkable winemaker, had two big services to humanity: married Barb Barb Nicole Ponzarden and died on time to give widow to show his abilities.

The lady raised the modest household of her husband on unprecedented heights. She invented the method of perfect cleaning champagne and bridle on the plug, because the pressure in the bottle is three times higher than in the car's tire. In addition, the lady skillfully used natural phenomena for self-advertising. So, in 1811, the inhabitants of the Earth watched Comet. The widow cleaned immediately sent a ship to Russia (whose troops recently defeated Napoleon) with a huge party champagne, on the label of which the tailed asterisk was depicted. The gigantic sales market was provided. All aristocracy tried the "Komet wine", and even Pushkin mentioned champagne in his verses. Now the cheapest products of the house "Widow Kliko" costs from two and a half thousand rubles. And the price of some elite bottles is calculated in several tens of thousands of dollars.

Moët & Chandon ("Moet and Shandon")

This company is as old as "widow cleaned." Who does not know this elite champagne? Photo of a black bow with a golden border, bonded by a round red stamp under the neck of the bottle, serves as a reference of French art to live. Moet and Shandon delivered their champagne to the French king's yard. It attracted Louis XV, and Napoleon Bonaparte did not begged himself to drive himself to the wine house when he was passing to Champagne. Since the reign of Eduard Vii Moët & Chandon, the British market has mastered the British market. And now the firm is the official supplier of champagne to the court of Elizabeth II. "Moet and Shandon" are not limited to royal specialists. It is their champagne to be poured into glasses while presenting a prestigious award in cinema "Golden Globe". Thanks to the large circulation, the company's products are sold at more affordable prices. In Russia, the bottle "Moet and Shandon" can be bought in two thousand rubles.

Dom Pérignon ("House Perignon")

It's time to tell about the inventor of champagne as such. "House" is not the name and the more not the building. The name of Perignon Pierre. Since he was a monk-Benedictine, he was respectful as a spiritual face of the house. Perignon lived in the seventeenth century, and in his free prayer time experimented in his abbey Ovilé with young foamy wine. He was the first to think about the secondary breakdown of quiet drinks. He kept them in bottles of very thick glass, plugged with oak plug. The luxury champagne brand of Abbey Ovilé very quickly appreciated the French aristocracy. Soon he began to supply the Sun King Louis XIV to Versailles. Moet and Shandon firm bought abbey vineyards. The manufacturer continues to create drinks on old technology. This brand is called - "House Perignon". Since the area of \u200b\u200bvineyards is small, then this drink automatically increases in price. The bottle of the usual "House of Perignon" costs from eight thousand rubles. Dom Perignon Oenotheque - the luxury brand of wine house is estimated on the market at twenty-two thousand.

Louis Roederer ("Louis Röderder")

In Russia, this is the most expensive elite champagne. Its name became known in our country since the reign of Alexander II. And it is not surprising: "Louis Röderter Crystal" was manufactured in 1876 specifically for the royal court. The word "cristal" meant not only the maximum cleaning of the drink. By order of Emperor Alexander II, champagne was supplied in crystal bottles. About sixty percent of all wine house products Louis Röderra went to Russia. And now our compatriots remained true to tradition. Champagne "Louis Röderler Brut Prime" is the most sought-after from French brands. Its average price is four thousand three hundred rubles per bottle. The exclusive drink "Louis Röderter Crystal" is much higher. Its value varies from ten to thirty-five thousand rubles (depending on the year of harvest).

Piper-Heidsieck (Piper Haydsik)

The owners of this wine house promote their products through Hollywood Stars. Champagne "Piper Haydsik" was a favorite Merilin Monroe. And on all ceremonies, the Oscar premiums invariably present the products of this house. The company's PR managers seem to have discovered "golden custody". Now the names "Piper Haydsik" and Hollywood are inseparable. In 1965, the company released a bottle of 1.82 meters high, in the growth of the Oscar owner of the Kharrison Rex (for his role in the film "My beautiful Lady", played in a pair with Audrey Hepburn). And last year, Kristian Lobuten became designer at home "Piper Haydsik". Thus appeared champagne elite brut, released in a gift set with a shoe on a crystal heater. This PR-move refers us to a tale about Cinderella. But at the same time, he makes you remember and an old wedding tradition, when the bride drinks champagne from the bride's shoes. The gift set is found in the wine boutiques of Russia is not possible. But the usual champagne "Piper Haydsik Brute" can be found over one and a half thousand rubles.

G.H. Mumm ("Mumm")

The Red Ribbon of the Honorary Legion decorated the label of its products is still the first owner of the company in the eighteenth century. Now the company advertises himself through sports. The slogan of the wine house is "the desire for achievements and courage." The company is a sponsor of many sports and scientific achievements. In 1904, this luxury champagne spook the crew of the Le-France ship in Antarctica. They emphasize the winners of the "Formula 1" competition. Mumm is the third manufacturer in the world in terms of sales. A bottle of champagne this company is on average two and a half thousand rubles.

Krug ("Circle")

Can sparkling fault be weathered? Yes, if they are manufactured in the "Circle" basements. This house initially put on the quality of the drink, and not on sales. Our own vineyards have only twenty hectares! The wort of a better blend is fermented in small wooden kegs, and then stands in bottles of at least six years. Thanks to this method, the champagne appears not only the complex, recognizable taste, but also the ability "noble to grow". Such an elite champagne can be kept in the cellar at least forty years so that it is profitable to sell. What is not an investment? For example, at the auction of wine in Hong Kong in April 2015, the Bottle "Circle" of the 1928 crop went over twenty-one thousand two hundred dollars. But ordinary champagne this company costs about twenty thousand rubles.

It is usually believed that the drinks category "Prestige Küwe" should be dry: ultra, extra, nature and savage-rut. But recently dessert wines are becoming increasingly fashionable. This trend was reflected in champagne. They began to produce dessert "interchange" and "kavu", German sparkling wine "Sect". Then the sweet "Cremant" appeared. This is also also produced outside the elite province. Very famous "Silm" from Yura and Alsace. Perhaps the most delicious sweet "champagne" can be called "sparkling" (sparkling wine) from the Italian province of Asti. It is made from one variety of berries - Moskato.

Domestic brands of champagne

Production of sparkling wines in russian Empire It began in 1799, when Academician Pallas in his estate under Sudak released the first beverage bottles made according to the champagne method. In 1804, the School was even opened in Crimea. There began to conduct experiments on the creation of champagne wines. The prince of Lion Golitsyn made a great contribution to the winemaking. In 1900, his champagne "New World" received the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris. Golitsyn worked not only in the Crimea. In 1870, in the royal estate on the banks of Durso's river and Lake Abrau in Kuban, he along with French experts raised vineyards and equipped the plant for the development of champagne. The first party was released in 1897. But Abrau-Durso and the "New World" were not the only stamps of sparkling wines in Russia. Among the domestic names during the USSR, there was still firmly holds the position of the "Moscow elite champagne".

Is it possible to produce such wine in northern latitudes?

There would be production facilities that correspond to the technological process. In the suburbs there are mushrooms, berries - flowers, but not grapes. But the berries of varieties "Pinot", "Riesling", "Aligote" and "Chardonon" are delivered to the capital of Russia from the southern regions. At the MKSV plant, grapes turns into a drink called "Moscow Elite Champagne": Breut, semi-dry and semi-sweet. The amount of sugar in wine is regulated not by the addition of crystals, but exclusively as an assembly. Sushlo is withstanding about six months. As a result, a bevel of a saturated light straw color is born, with a harmonious taste and an interesting bouquet.

Champagne is an indispensable attribute festive table.. Therefore, the question of how sparkling choose is always important. Purchase Russian champagne or buy produced in Europe - it depends on the individual preferences of the person himself.

Champagne wine rating

Good champagne always highly appreciated. The rating of sparkling wines presents drinks with a variety of tastes and aromas:

1. Playful alcohol brand Philipponnat Clos Des Goisses BRUT 2004 costs about 11 thousand rubles. It is made of one grape variety and has a taste of lemon, pears, nuts and mint.
2. Bruno Paillard Extra BRUT N.P.U. (NEC Plus Ultra) 2003 (12 thousand rubles) - Wine with a taste of honey, having a fresh, bright, memorable fragrance.
3. CLOS LANSON BLANC DE BLANCS BRUT 2006 (13 thousand rubles) - wine from the grapes collected in the suburbs of Reims. In taste, complex mineral shades and fruits are guessed.
4. Louis Roederer Cristal 2009 (15 thousand rubles) made of 2 grape varieties based on biodynamic principles, which is a mixing of organic products and esoteric techniques. The drink is characterized by the softness and tenderness of bubbles.
5. TaitTinger Collection Champagne 2008 (16 thousand rubles) is wine made only from Chardonnay variety. Alcohol, characterized by a light taste, is spilled in bottles, which are the author's work of the photographer Salgado from Brazil.
6. Dom Pérignon Rosé (22 thousand rubles) has a complex, multifaceted taste. Champagne seemed to be aged for long years, although it was manufactured only in 2005.
7. Piper-Heidsieck Rare Rosé 2007 (29 thousand rubles) has spicy taste, aroma strawberries and a beautiful grenade tint.
8. Salon Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs BRUT 2002 (30 thousand rubles) has thin, but at the same time rich taste and flower smell.
9. Krug Clos Du Mesnil 2002 (60 thousand rubles) is also made of Chardonnay variety, so the taste of a drink is complicated, in the aroma you can feel spices and citrus.
10. Bollinger Vieilles Vignes Françaiseses 2002 (70 thousand rubles) is made of grade Pinot Noir, which was assembled with the oldest grape vines. In taste you can find notes of different fruits, colors and even smoke.

It is impossible to determine the most delicious champagne, because each of them has its amazing properties.

Best champagne in Russia

Sweet sparkling wine has always been recognized by the Russian consumer.

The most popular is Abrau-Durso, which is produced by domestic plants. Sparkling drinks from the Italian manufacturer Bosca are highly appreciated. One of the best sparkling wines is the brand Pino Noir, which is produced by the Crimean company a new light.

The rich fruit palette of taste at Italian sparkling wine Asta. The domestic buyer appreciated it, since alcohol of this brand has high levels of sales.

Classic Soviet champagne is considered better compared to light sparkling wines, because It is produced in accordance with the standards of exemplary winemaking.

For the holidays, Russians prefer to take champagne rust, which contains a minimum amount of sugar (up to 1.5%). It is a good addition to the table with salads, meat dishes and cutting. While semi-sweet wine often buy in addition to desserts and fruits.

How to choose champagne

The choice of champagne often depends on how much money the buyer is ready to pay for him. Among budget options You can find high-quality wine that will delight with your taste. To do this, you should carefully treat the purchase process.

It follows only in large specialized or network stores. If the price of the drink, which is famous for its quality and cost, will suddenly be low, it can be a reason for suspicion of his quality.

On the territory of Russia, champagne is issued only on the norms of the state standard, therefore the letters of GOST and the figures 5116 will indicate that the wine has passed the necessary verification.

The bottle label should be printed on good paper and smoothly glued. The content should report information about the manufacturing company, the expiration date of alcohol and the place of its filling. If there is an inscription "weathered" on the etiquette, this indicates that champagne before being on the shelf, it suffered at least 3 years.

The inscription "Hazed Wine" indicates that carbon dioxide in alcohol has not appeared naturally, and was artificially added. Such a drink will lose bubbles after 15 minutes, while in the real champagne they can save up to 24 hours.

Playful alcohol released in bottles of darkened glass. It is explained by the fact that the sun's rays reduce the taste quality of the alcoholic beverage, and it becomes bitter. Light bottle - indicator of poor-quality product. If the sediment accumulated at the bottom of the container, then it should not buy such alcohol.

Before choosing champagne, you should consider the top of the bottle. Plastic traffic jams close medium and low quality products. It is better to look for a bottle with a cortkid cork.

Compliance with temperature, humidity, the position of the bottle is the key to the fact that its contents will save its taste properties. Even high quality product can be unsuitable if the store employees ignored its storage rules.

How to use it right

Before serving a bottle of champagne to the table, it should be cooled to + 9 ... + 10ºС. If the temperature is lower, it will not be possible to try the taste and aroma of sparkling.

Often champagne put on the table in special buckets filled with ice cubes. You can not shake the bottle. Opening, it should be kept at an angle of 45º. You should not twist the plug, but the container itself. If you follow the equipment, the traffic jam will be gently. Loud cotton does not testify to the mastery of a person who opened champagne.

The glasses fill slowly, the rowing shoulder on the wall. If you pour champagne to the bottom, it will appear a large number of Foam, which will not fall quickly. Split wine in 2 clips, because After the first foam should settle down. With proper filling, the fluid should occupy 3/4 of the glasses.

Hold the Fuuder follows the leg, because Contact the upper part of the gland with palm will heat its contents, which will reflect on the taste of the drink.

Drink sparkling wines by sips, after reviewing the game bubbles and enjoying the aroma. You can use them both before eating and during meals.

Snacks submitted to this type of alcohol may be the most different. Sandwiches with caviar, cheeses, light salads, meat dishes different speciesFruits are an incomplete list of what can be offered under the present champagne.

The consequences of using sparkling alcohol depend on what champagne and in what quantity it was drunk. Often headaches pursue a person after glasses with a sweet semi-hum. The sugar content is above, so you can drink such a wine several times more than dry.

Not everyone has the opportunity to purchase present champagne present in the French province of Champagne. Such brands of sparkling wine belong to the highest price category. However, with a limited budget, there is always the opportunity to buy inexpensively champagne. Currently, many manufacturers offer affordable sparkling wines. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the list of alcoholic beverages that have low cost, worthy of quality characteristics and will be able to decorate the festive feast.

Assortment of inexpensive Russian sparkling wines

Available at the price of champagne brand is produced both in Russia and in other countries where wine varieties are grown. The following products can be attributed to inexpensive in cost and rather good in terms of the quality of the quality of Russian sparkling wines.

Abrau-Durso. In the collection of champagne manufactured by the manufacturer there are inexpensive sparkling wines. The cost of one bottle depends on the technology of production and quality of wine material. In the assortment of cheap drinks from this brand you can find dry, semi-sweet and sweet types of champagne.

Tsimlyansky. One of the most the best varieties Popular light alcohol produced in Russia. In addition to sparkling wine of the Ruby Tint, the manufacturer offers champagne pink and white color. You can purchase a fairly high-quality sparkling wine class of Extra Brute, semi-sweet or sweet.

Fanagory. In the production of sparkling wine, the traditional technology of natural champagne is used. This is a good Russian champagne can be white or pink colour. The manufacturer offers dry and semi-sweet varieties.

Dolce Vita. Sparkling wine, which is particularly popular in the youth environment. Differs champagne bright design Bottles, has raspberry, strawberry and cherry flavoring shades.

Santo Stefano. Refers to sparkling wines. Two types of semi-sweet alcoholic beverage are available: white and pink. Alcohol is manufactured from brilliant wine materials. Despite this wine, it turns out a lung and pleasant taste. It does not have characteristic alcohol notes.

Rachel. The technology according to which the products of Rashel complies with all international standards. The result is available for the price of delicious champagne. The manufacturer offers white alcoholic beverages, which can be dry, semi-sweet and sweet.

Lavetti. Sparkling carbonated wines of this brand can be semi-sweet or sweet, pink or white. In the process of their production, elite grape varieties are used.

Villa Blanco. In the manufacturer's collection of white sparkling wines of vints, semi-dry and sweet pink. Such champagne has an extraordinary ease and is extremely popular among women.

Each brand producing inexpensive champagne brands tries to retain the optimal ratio between the price and the quality of the product. Such alcoholic beverages will make any event with solemn and memorable with relatively small material costs.

Budget brands of imported champagne

Pick up relatively inexpensive, but at the same time high-quality champagne for a wedding or any other celebration can be from the range of foreign brands.

Cricova (Moldova). In the manufacturer's white, pink and red sparkling wine brands. Sweet, semi-sweet, dry and dessert types of champagne are produced.

Lambrusco, Asti, Prosecco (Italy). Foam alcoholic beverages, the quality of which is at a sufficiently high level. At the same time, the price is significantly lower than on the champagne produced in France.

Cava (Spain). It is produced by champagne by secondary fermentation. Alcohol rehes and saturates carbon dioxide Directly in the bottle. In the assortment there are beverages of rock varieties, semi-sweet and dry.

Cremant (France). So called champagne, which is produced in the French provinces of Burgundy, Alsace and Bordeaux. Such alcohol refers to sparkling wines. It has a completely democratic cost.

In addition, today affordable champagne relative to good quality offer manufacturers from Portugal.

There is always a choice. Never buy the cheapest champagne. Because of this, a scheduled holiday can be spoiled.

The price of champagne, which is bought to the celebration depends on the financial capabilities of the buyer. However, even with a limited budget, you can always choose a decent option that will be available at cost. Inexpensive, but high-quality sparkling wine will allow to fully experience the solemnity of the moment and bring guests only positive emotions.

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What a good champagne

"AIF" spent in Rostt-Moscow expertise of a hip drink

What a semi-sweet champagne is better.
We bought 5 bottles of semi-sweet champagne of Russian and Ukrainian production and sent to the expertise to the testing center of food and food raw materials "Rostt-Moscow".

Champagne can only be called white wine. And sparkling wines (which are often confused with champagne) can be both white and pink, and red. In this case, the foam properties of these beverages are ensured by the fact that carbon dioxide appears in them in naturally in fermentation. If it is added artificially - this is a cheap drink! "Sparkling, that is, the presence of small bubbles, fountains and a beautiful white hat (mousse) in a glass, shows that the drink is high-quality," experts explained the experts of Rostosta, who conducted research. The longest was champagne "Novosvetsky". And the fastest bubbles from the "Crimean Sparkling" were evaporated.

The following indicator is the concentration of sugars. We checked it to understand whether our samples of the declared category "Semi-sweet" correspond to. "Among the winemakers it is believed that the added sugar corrected the flaws of wine. That is why professionals are especially appreciated by the varieties of Breut, where sugar is completely small and its level corresponds to the grape variety from which sparkling wine was cooked, "explains Roman Gaidashov, Expert OZPP "Public Control". By the way, if the manufacturer adds sugar more than needed (for the preparation of champagne, sugar and brandy alcohol add to the guilt), the drink may not have time to move - such a champagne will be tasteful. In all samples, the sugar concentration was normal. But the most sugar we found in sparkling wine "Novosvetsky", and the least - in Abrau-Durso.

An important quality indicator of champagne is a mass concentration of titratable acids. It depends on how the technological process was observed during production. If the concentration is lower than the norm, in front of you the unnatural wine of the low variety. If above - it means, the drink has deteriorated. Among our subjects, everyone turned out to be in admissible framework.

By the way, if you think that wine is a natural product without preservatives, then mistaken. In the production of any wine, including champagne, can be added to preservatives so that the bacteria do not multiply in the bottle. "Sulfur dioxide is the most ancient and, one can say, the most harmless of them," says Roman Gaidashov. - Domestic standards of the norm, as a rule, do not exceed, but in the overseas wines of sulfur dioxide is often more. The case is in a more hard framework: in Russia, the norm is no more than 200 mg / dm³, in the West - not more than 300. In our samples, the manufacturer of champagne "Silver Age" turned out to be the most caring - he did not put a lot of preservative. But in the "Fires of Moscow" dioxide turned out to be the most. True, experts immediately rehabilitate him and noted that this sample was pleased with their ratio price - quality - taste. "

Fullness of wine, its taste, bouquet and saturation determines including the mass concentration of the given extract. This is exactly the "component", which depends on the initial raw materials - grapes.

The higher the concentration, the more fully taste there is a drink. Usually in champagne from white grape varieties (white sparkling wines), this indicator is close to the lower boundary of the norm. But in red, saturated wines he is high. Among the proven bottles, the champagne "Silver Age" has the most complete taste - the high price is justified. But the champagne "Novosvetsky" the price is the same, and the saturation is much smaller.

Waiter, champagne !!

"Never on request champagne ... This is vulgar. Only wines! The waiter in your mind should understand that you drink wine only champagne! " - According to the memories of the contemporary, she touched a good tone of V. Mayakovsky.
The poet knew what he said: champagne - not just good wine, but a kind of symbol. Same of chosenness, elitism. Sign of good taste and respectability.
"Not everyone is to taste, not everyone on his pocket ... but there is no strength to overcome the desire to put in the entire hall:" Man, champagne! ". Know ours! " - This is from the book of V.Gilyarovsky "Moscow and Muscovites".
Well, as "in the topic" do not remember: in the morning, champagne drink or aristocrats, or degenerates! Whatever it was, but there are days, there are events (and such a lot) when we cannot do without champagne. Regardless of whether we love him or not. What, say, New Year without champagne?! Well, how not to raise a foaming glass for the happiness of newlyweds? Or for the health of the dilapidated jubilee? And with the wishes of seven feet under the keel about the board of the ship, it is not vodka, not a French brandy or whiskey - only champagne! Champagne - holiday beverage. This is already wine - champagne!

To buy champagne, it is necessary to approach responsibly. After all, it can decorate the holiday, and maybe if not to spoil, it's seriously overshadowed ... not champagne, of course, and a border that you can easily buy in a bottle from under champagne. Five minutes later with large bubbles and exhale, will calm down forever in front of the amazed public. Gazing!
Not all champagne, which hits and foams! The first official registered scam took a shameful place in the reign of Nikolai I. Someone Krchch, who arrived in Russia, even "not for the ranks and awards", and with one goal - as soon as possible to get rich, being as director of the Crimean State School of Winemaking, not long The varieties of grapes and receptions of cooking wine deployed the trade in the Crimean wine under the label of the French "Rederner". For counterfeit, as we would now qualify this act, soon the emperor is unclean in the affairs of Ino Semechan with a disgrace was expelled from Russia.

We will tell about what this champagne is and how not to be deceived when purchasing it, as well as about Russian traditions in the production of sparkling wines

Champagne, according to the norms of international law, can be called only wine produced in France, in the province of Champagne. This is a white or pink sparkling wine, the saturation of which carbon dioxide occurs during secondary fermentation and subsequent excerpt.
In the manufacture of champagne, strict rules stipulated by the country's legislation for this category of wines are strictly complied with, in particular, vines and vintage, yields with hectares. The whole process from collecting berries before bottling is under strict observation of both the manufacturers and French controlling organizations themselves.
For the production of champagne wines, three grape varieties are used: Chardonne - White, Pinot Noir - Red, Pinot More - Red. Champagne, made only from the Chardonne variety, is called "White White". If champagne is produced from red grape varieties, then it is called "white black".
Grapes are harvested by hand, while unrivable, damaged and rotten berries are necessarily removed with a bunch of tongs. Recycling is delivered in special plastic baskets with holes in the bottom, so that the grapes can "breathe", and the juice from the damaged berry flowed out and could not be used to produce champagne, because during the transportation it is inevitably oxidized.
The premises where the presses are installed are built near the vineyards. Pressing is a very responsible moment. The main thing at this stage is to separate the skin and bones from the wort (grape juice), so that the painting and tannic substances are not floating in the skin of red varieties. Pressing occurs in several stages. As a result, two convulsions are obtained. The first is called Küwe. The best champagne wines make exactly from Küwe: they are distinguished by special sophistication, freshness and ability to a longer life in a bottle.
The second faction is called Thai. Pressed juice (wort) withstand 12 hours at a reduced temperature so it is subjected to primary fermentation. It turns out the basic wine for champagne. Part it is left in the reserve, sending stored in large tanks at a temperature of 10 ° C under an inert gas. It provides maximum freshness of the wines until their use in subsequent years. Other of the same part of the Assabli (mixed) with wines from different areas of Champagne, different grape varieties (and we already know that there are three of them) and, most often, of different years of crop. The most typical champagne is just such a mixture. It is based on the wine of the new harvest and plus reserve wines, that is, the wines of the previous yields. This Assembly may include up to 200 wines. This champagne is fundamentally different from other wine-making areas of France, the best wines of which almost always occur from one vineyard and made from the grapes of one year of harvest.
Features of winemaking in champags are predetermined by climatic conditions. In this region, depending on the weather, the wines of one vineyard, but different years may differ from unrecognizability. Grapes in Champagne rarely maturing completely, and the Assembly allows you to compensate for the flaws of the grapes of a vineyard.
The purpose of the Assembly is not only in disguise, the leveling of disadvantages, but in the desire to ensure that the amount becomes better than any of its component. Wizard winemakers in Champagne often compare with the artist, and the reserve wines used by them - with a palette. In particularly successful years, manufacturers produce million champagne or vintage grapes of one year of harvest.
To achieve typical and recognition of the style of your champagne, the master "The winemaker conducts numerous tastings and mixing wines, after which it starts to the Assablius. After creating the assembly mixture, the wine is bottled. Since the sugar content is usually less than 1 gram per liter, then for provoking A second fermentation (fermentation) in a bottle is added a circulating liquor, which consists of cane sugar dissolved in the backup fault of cane sugar, yeast and additives containing gelatin or bentonite.
Bottles are silent by special "workers" plugs equipped with metal brackets. After biting the bottle in a horizontal position laid into the cellar. Under the influence of the circulation liqueur in the bottle, secondary fermentation begins, which continues from one to two months.
At this time, carbon dioxide in the process of fermentation cannot break out and begins to dissolve in wine. From time to time, the bottles shake slightly so that the precipitate formed (yeast decomposition products) did not stick to the walls.
After the completion of fermentation, long-term aging of champagne on the sediment begins. During this period, the bottle does not touch at all. It is a long exposure to a sediment gives champagne sophistication, wealth and complexity. According to the law, the excerpt of non-flash champagne should take place at least 15 months, Milsels - at least three years.

At the end of the ending the following process begins - Remuaba. The essence of this operation is in the information of the sediment for a plug. Traditionally, this operation is carried out on wooden web, resembling a sliding staircase with two boards, in which holes are done at a certain angle, allowing the bottle any angle of inclination. Bottles first exhibit in a horizontal position, then they turn around the axis daily by 1/8, gradually tilting down the neck, gradually giving a bottle almost a vertical position.
It is believed that the idea of \u200b\u200bRemuaja belongs to Madame Kliko (one of the most famous champagne is named), which has long been looking for a way to get rid of the sediment in the bottle, until I found the original decision, sacrificing the dining table, in which the holes for bottles were done at its disposal. Many later, the tables were replaced by Mupprathi, which occurred much less space.
When the precipitate reduced on the cork sufficiently constructs, the defer stage comes, that is, the precipitate removal. The neck of the bottle is placed in a cooling fluid at - 20 ° C, the precipitate turns into a cliff and - literally "shifting" when the bottle is bolding.
Before finally clog the bottle, a dosage (or dosing) liquor is added to it - dissolved in wine sugar, the amount of which varies depending on the type (from completely dry to the sweet).
Champagne under strong pressure cortical cork, which is always equipped with a marking of champagne houses. A metal cap is put on the plug, which protects it from the Muzla - a wire design that protects the plug from spontaneous departure.

A classic bottle of champagne method is characterized by complexity and complexity, but guarantees high quality of wine. Using this method, at the end of the 19th century began to prepare champagne and in Russia, in the Crimea, under the leadership of Prince Golitsyn, who is called the founder of the production of Russian champagne. Having understood deeply by the winemaking of France, Golitsyn knew how to organize the production of champagne in his estate "New World" under Sudak, where the vineyards spread. According to his project, first-class basements were built.
After ten-year experiments on the manufacture of sparkling wine champagne in 1890, Golitsyn began industrial champagne essays. In 1896, Golitsyn champagne appears on a parade dinner during the coronation celebrations of Nicholas II. In the same year, Golitsyn organizes the production of champagne wines in Abraudurso. In the spring of 1900 at the Paris World Exhibition, Lev Golitsyn presented the champagne "New World" of the Event of 1899. Russian champagne unanimously received the recognition of experts and was awarded the highest award of the competition - the Granprint Silver Cup.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the founder of the "Soviet champagne" produced by Academician of Frolov Bagreyev developed an acute formal shampanization method, in which secondary fermentation is carried out in special metal tanks - acratopors, which made it possible to reduce the duration of the technological process 30 times.
A variety of this method is a continuous champagne method, when the primary fermentation venue is pumped through a system of 7-8 huge hermetically closed reservoirs and turns into sparkling wine from 20 to 30 days. It is cheaper, democratic wine, but corresponding to the main, "generic" sign of sparkling: it is saturated with carbon dioxide absolutely naturally.
The main mass of wine, which, magnitude champagne, we drink "in life", is made on this simplified technology. Sparkling wines "Champagnes" are manufactured in many countries. In Italy they are called "Scrumbs", Spain - Cava, Germany - "Zek" ... Sparkling wines produced by "Champagne Method" are obtained in all the winery provinces of France, but they are called "cream". Started - "champagne". But with this, so loved by the title to us, have to say goodbye. Alien Brand!
In 1997, Russia recognized the exclusive right of France to this trademark and assumed the obligation to not use the designation "Champagne" (like "Cognac") for Russian beverages on export. For 20-25 years, the name "Champagne" should be replaced with "sparkling" and in the domestic market. I mean champagne, drink sparkling!

Nowadays, the market of sparkling wines is great and diverse. True connoisseurs can if the tools allow, pamper themselves with a bottle of real French champagne "Widow Kliko" ...
Or "Moet and Shandon". There are many other famous brands. This class of drinks, how to say, not all. But this is not a reason for the disorder, if you do not move with snobbery ("certainly that French!"), And the natural desire to deliver a gastronomic pleasure to wine of canceled quality. In stores there are many decent wines made with us or our nearest neighbors and sold, which is called, at our prices. Some of them still continue to be called champagne until time. Others argue themselves in consuming consciousness under the correct designation of "sparkling".

Classic sparkling wine produces our "Abrau" Durso "," New Light "in Crimea," Artemovsky "in Ukraine," Crykovo "in Moldova. Red Sweet sparkling with fruit aroma produces the Tsimlyansky Plant in the Rostov region in the old Cossack process.
Winzavoda, located away from the climatic zones of grapes, work on wine materials purchased in the south of Russia, Moldova, Spain, Italy, Argentina.
Champagne has a very subtle, only inherent bouquet and taste. Color - Lightlocked or Golden with greenish reflections. Alcohol content is not more than 12.5%. The fewer bubbles, the longer they play in the glass, reminding the rosary or thread bus, the better, better wine.
Left in the sparkled bottle overnight, real sparkling will not exhale, will not calm down, will play and in the morning. When buying carefully examine information on the label, where the manufacturer should be specified, its address and trademark of the enterprise, as well as the designation of the flavoring characteristic: from absolutely dry to the sweet.

Without reading into the label, you risk acquired instead of champagne at best of the hip wine, in the worst - an aromatized hype drink made of alcohol, water, sugar, flavoring, which is artificially saturated with carbon dioxide. At the same time, prices are as if it really is champagne, and not promising liquid.
It happens that on the label, intensely made in the usual all-style "Soviet champagne", is largely written - "Soviet semi-sweet", and in a focaller, which is not all known, is not all, "semi-sweet carbonated wine. "Sparkle" - not "sparkling". Probably, everyone is clear that this is not the same thing, but the tricks yes for not experimenting can not be thought and instead of noble sparkling wine to buy artificially sparkling sparkling. Pop!
If you bought the present champagne, you should know:
Champagne is usually supplied at a temperature of 8-10 ° C, which the best way Promotes the perception of flavor and beverage taste. To cool the wine, it can be placed in the refrigerator (but not in the freezer) about an hour or use to cool a special ice bucket. Store champagne in the refrigerator for more than two days is not recommended - the cold kills the fragrance and the game of the drink. In general, champagne should not be stored for more than 2-3 years: the quality is lost. Glasses under champagne need to wash cold water without any detergents.