Champagne is a symbol of a holiday, fun and joy. It is for many years invariable attribute of big celebrations, anniversaries, weddings and New Year's parties. Champagne, as well as at other drinks, has an expiration date. And also there is a number of criteria by which it is possible to determine quality of a product.
Rules of the choice of good champagne
It is necessary to buy champagne in specialized shops or in large hypermarkets.
Consider that good quality champagne can't be cheap. On expensive brands seldom there are big discounts and actions. If you are limited to a certain budget, look narrowly at medium-priced drinks.
In the name "the matured sparkling wine" has to be specified, don't confuse with "sparkling" is already a product of other look.
Quality champagne is bottled dark color and corked with cork stoppers.
Surely get acquainted with beverage composition. Fragrances, dyes and preservatives are a powerful occasion to refuse purchase.
On the label the following information has to be specified: producer, description and beverage composition, date of production, expiration date, license, drink fortress, license.
As for types of champagne, be guided by the taste.
Depending on the used raw materials, champagne can be white, pink or red. On a sugar content it is subdivided into extra brut (without addition of sugar), brut, dry, moist, semisweet, sweet, dessert.
Dry grades well approach meat, fish and a bird, and more sweet cheeses, chocolate, fruit and desserts.
Expiration date and rules of storage of champagne
Champagnes have the expiration date too. On a bottle the conscientious producers always specify an expiration date and rules of storage of a product.
The expiration date of champagne depends on the brand of wine, its version and storage conditions.
The longest period of storage at elite sparkling wines. It is caused by the fact that at their production grapes of a different harvest don't mix up. Champagne of a premium class is done of the grapes picked in one year. Under the corresponding conditions such wines can be stored from 5 to 20 years. Some wine houses provide to buyers of expensive drinks of a storage place in special cellars.
Champagne of a mid-price segment has a warranty period of storage from 6 months to 2 years.
Sparkling wines with a low sugar content are stored less, than semisweet and dessert beverages. After opening, champagne is stored in the fridge no more day.
In house conditions it is very difficult to achieve ideal conditions for storage of champagne.
That drink didn't lose the flavoring properties to store it it is necessary at a temperature from + 5 to + 15 degrees, and ideally from +10 to +12 degrees.
As storage the dark aerated basement with humidity of air of 75-85% well approaches.
Bottles have to lie in horizontal position.
Because of difficulties of storage of drink in house conditions sparkling wines shouldn't be bought for the future. Usual shops can not always provide the correct storage of alcoholic drinks too therefore when choosing champagne give preference in supermarkets to young wines. And here in specialized wine cellars it is possible to buy sparkling wine already more "respectable age".
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