What is Sparkling Wine?

Series Summary

Sparkling wine has been enjoyed for thousands of years; created first by the English, and perfected by the French in the 18th century. Though Pierre Perignon, or Dom Perignon, the French monk did not invent Champagne, he did however, significantly refine the Champagne making process. Since then people all over the world have tasted this amazing sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France. But is Champagne the only sparkling wine worthy of purchase? No, but do you know why? If you would like to learn more about Champagne and sparkling wine you can learn for free from our expert sommelier.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you all about sparkling wine and champagne. You will get tips on how to open sparkling wine bottles and how to pour sparkling wine. You will also learn facts about sparkling wine bubble finesse and aroma. Finally, get information on champagne, Don Perignon champagne, Prosecco champagne and new world sparkling wines. If you love wine and want improve your knowledge of sparkling wines and champagnes, let our expert sommelier teach you everything you ever wanted to know.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm going to tell you all about Sparkling Wine. Now sparkling wine is made just about any area that actually produces wine. People love bubbly so just about any producer of wine will make a sparkling wine. Sparkling wine by definition has extra carbon dioxide. As a matter or fact up to six atmosphere of pressure of carbon dioxide is dissolve within this bottle. And you might not believe this but a good bottle of bubbly at six atmosphere of pressure has 56 million bubbles on it. If you want to know who counted that? So do I. And actually the people who volunteered counted that. I tell you more about that later. So sparkling wine comes from all over the world. Fifty six million bubbles in there. The most famous of course, I don't even have to tell you is champagne. And all champagne is sparkling wine but not all sparkling wine is champagne. Champagne only comes from a region in France known as Champagne and then make the world's most famous and probably most beloved, definitely most expensive sparkling wine. You can also get a wonderful sparkling wine from Italy. It's usually called the Spumante or Frizzante. You can get a sparkling wine from South Africa where it?s called Cape Classique. You can get a sparkling wine from Germany where it's called the which is S-E-K-T. You can also get a sparkling wine from the New World Wine producers, California, Washington State, Oregon, Chile, Argentina, Australia, makes amazing sparkling wine. Even New Zealand. And those wines are called just Sparkling Wine."