by Becca • • Comments Off on Going Whichever Way the Wind Blows: The Effect of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on Cava Quality
Is it possible to predict the quality of a wine, for example Cava (Spanish sparkling wine) just by using meteorological data? Could you predict if a particular Cava would be good quality or poor quality just by knowing certain atmospheric…
We are nearing the end of another year, and what better way to celebrate the holidays and ring in the New Year with some bubbles! Well, in all honesty, I think bubbly wines should be consumed at any time, and…
by Becca • • Comments Off on Size Does Matter: The Effect of Bottle Size on Dissolved Carbon Dioxide Loss after Pouring Champagne
In celebration of the New Year, we’ll once again focus our blog posts on current research related to Champagne/sparkling wine! Briefly, the bubbles in Champagne and other sparkling wine beverages are created by trapped CO2 molecules during the secondary fermentation…
In the spirit of the upcoming New Year, we’ll focus the next few blog posts on sparkling wine/Champagne! There are several different methods for producing sparkling wine, including the traditional method and the Charmat method. The traditional method, also known…