According to the norms of European wine law champagne can only be considered as products wine champagne (France). Details about this very famous sparkling wine, see the specified page.
Sparkling wines are produced in other French regions. Moreover, the quality may not yield the recognized brands of champagne.
Note that the “quality” and taste characteristics (preferences) is not the same thing!
Limoux (Limoux, a wine-growing region of Languedoc) – the historical birthplace of French sparkling wines. There they started to produce long before the formation of sparkling wine in the champagne region and is produced so far, using the local white varieties Muzak (Mauzac), also known as blanket (Blanquette).
The technology that was used originally, is now called ancestral – method “ancestors”. On the bottles of sparkling wine produced according to this technology, you’ll see “méthode ancestrale” method (ancestors, old-fashioned) or “méthode rurale” (the rural method) and the contents will with the sediment, which is normal for this type of production.
French sparkling by the method ancestrale:
Crémant (Cremant) is a French sparkling, made by the “champagne method”, but not in the champagne region:
If French sparkling wine not belong to any of the sparkling appellations, the bottle will be indicated simply vin mousseux (van Musso) or vin petillant (van patio) without any specification. Both mean simply “sparkling wine”, but the second is less foamy. Their varietal composition can be characteristic of the locality in which it is made, and may be based on recognizable international varieties. The manufacturing method can also be different.
However, if French sparkling wine does not belong to the crémant, but he reserved a special appellation (often within the existing quiet), the inscription is not just a “vin mousseux” and “appellation -suitable mousseux – controlee”. Method of production of these sparkling, as a rule, traditional (champagne). For example:
There are in France and are sparkling, which is its own appellation, but not the Cremant and not Musso. And quite your. You can recognize them by the shape of the bottle:), and accompanying slogans like “brut”. To learn the method of production will have to go into the rules of the appellation, since in this case there are no General rules. For example, the above-mentioned Bugey Cerdon or Cleret de Di (Clairette de Die).
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