Naked Champagne, the Making of Zero Dosage Champagne
Naked Champagne, the Making of Zero Dosage Champagne
Feb 29, 2012 6
(Palatepress) - Here in Champagne, one often says that champagne is first and foremost a wine. However the characteristics of this wine change significantly with the adding of the dosage (a mixture of base wine and cane sugar) at the time of disgorging.
Today’s most popular Champagne style is brut—which often contains 6 to 12 grams of sugar per liter. This is done by adding the dosage to balance its high natural acidity and to make the wine a little prettier and easier to drink. There are different champagne styles depending on the amount of sugar added in the dosage, but the one that has caught my attention is the zero dosage, where no sugar is added after the second fermentation
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