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12 Days of Christmas with Champagne and Sparkling Wine: 11th Day

12 Days of Christmas with Champagne and Sparkling Wine: 11th Day

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Fredric Koeppel
Jan 04, 2018
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Pricing is power, but sometimes producers get ahead of themselves in terms of ambitious tariffs. These examples today illustrate how makers of sparkling wine in the Charmat process of second fermentation in tank, rather than in the individual bottle, as in Champagne and other regions, over-reached and did a disservice to consumers.

These wines were sampl…

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