Riddling Champagne

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Hi this is Dave for Expert Village today we're going to discuss champagnes and sparkling wines after they put the yeast back into the bottle and recork it they actually put the riddling racks there called in caves ideally or a serving air conditioned room that they can keep this nice and cool during the fermentation process, the secondary fermentation. So they'll actually put them into usually wood racks and it will start out at this sort of this angle, and then every few days they'll turn it at 1/8 of a turn and riddle it and put it at this angle. And this is a way they done it for hundreds of years, by hand and there's a machine run riddler now but I think they still do a lot of these this way. They turn it another 1/8 and change the angle and the idea is when they get it to just about this angle here, all the settlement from the yeast that is now created the bubbles and have they're pretty much died there here at the cork. And then they put it into a liquid nitrogen and just the top part and pull out the cork that'll freeze all that settlement in there. They'll pop that out and they'll recork it and your going to get the clear and put the capsule back on and then put on the aluminum foil, and it'll have all of that clear liquid inside now, the wine and not have any of that settlement in there.

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