In use any wine with bubbles making a sound when opening a stopper is called champagne. But generally not this word approaches each sparkling grape drink. We will understand in what a difference between champagne and sparkling wine.
All wines are divided into two main categories - silent and sparkling. The last differ from prevy in contents in them carbon dioxide. Thus, anyway it is possible to call drink with bubbles and loudly taking off stopper which can be put on a New Year's table sparkling wine.
And what then such champagne? Unless it is not a synonym of sparkling wine? Actually not. Pay attention that in wine lists of good restaurants the term ""sparkling wine"" is in most cases used.
First, ""champagne"" is a toponym, the French wine makers claiming that it is possible to call this word only those sparkling wines which made in the Province of Champagne persistently insist on it. And it is difficult to argue with them in spite of the fact that the word went out of this region for a long time. Moreover, production of drink in the Province of Champagne doesn't mean yet that it will belong to this category. The special international committee of champagnes approved the list of rules of production for all those who want to call the products ""champagne"".
It is possible to make champagne only of certain grades of grapes. They are six, but three are most often used - a pin noir, Chardonnay and Meunier's pin. Also it is supposed that berries need to be picked manually, to press accurately, without desteming at the same time. In rules there are accurate instructions as it is necessary to cut off a rod, to make an extraction when to reap a crop, also norms on organoleptic characteristics of a wingorad are registered. It is necessary to mature champagne not less than one and a half years. And of course, in a case with champagne the artificial gassing is excluded - drink can be produced only by method of afterfermentation of wine in a bottle.