Choosing champagne to a holiday table, it is necessary to have some idea of types of this sparkling drink. Champagnes differ with both quality, and the production technology, and, respectively, with the price.
If to speak about production of champagne in world scales, then around the world there are more than 3000 grades of this sparkling wine. And to choose for itself the most acceptable option, it is necessary to have an idea of features and distinctions of the most widespread grades.
Matter of taste
First of all champagnes are classified by a sugar content and a grade of grapes. That is, sparkling wines can be white, pink and even red, depending on the wine material used in production. On a sugar content champagne is divided into brut, dry, moist, semisweet and sweet (on increase of sweet).
The sugar content directly affects quality of a champagne. The sugar content, the less brisk taste are higher. It is considered that the best champagne for judges of gustatory qualities is brut. On the global standards exactly champagnes brut belong to the elite category of production of sparkling wines. The wine is more sweet - the less it is appreciated. The most sweet grades of champagne are made from sub-standard wine material or owing to the unforeseen factors which influenced the correct process of a sbrazhivaniye and champanization, and sweetening of this wine masks taste shortcomings. But of course, it is impossible to tell that sweet grades of champagnes initially marriage. The huge category of people loves sweet wines and production of champagne in the necessary degree is focused also on these consumers.
Visual features of the choice
It is necessary to know that for maintaining gustatory qualities the champagnes have to be correctly bottled and sealed. The container, improper in parameters, indicates high probability of a fake or handicraft nonindustrial work. Champagne is bottled only dark glass as the carbonic gas exchange causing sparkling properties of wine under the influence of sunlight very quickly collapses. At expensive grades of champagne the stopper is surely made of a pith tree which pore structure allows wine to breathe. Plastic traffic jams cork only inexpensive champagnes of domestic manufacturers focused on the ordinary consumer. It is considered that plastic negatively affects taste of champagne. Choosing a champagne, it is necessary to pay attention to all above features in general. And then consumption of this sparkling drink won't disappoint in taste and will give the festive atmosphere to any feast.