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Video: how sparkling wine is made – the final stage, disgorging by hand

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The last stage in making sparkling wine is called disgorgement. The second fermentation has taken place in the bottle and

New Zealand is a relative newcomer in the roll call of significant wine-producing countries. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that

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Champagne makes the world’s most famous sparkling wines. Here’s a brief introduction to the region and its wines. Where is

We talk a lot about clones and grape varieties. But what, precisely, do these terms mean? Let’s first define ‘variety’.

You’ve see them on the shelves of hip wine shops and on the lists of hot wine bars. They’re the

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Wine is a product of fermentation. Yeasts eat the sugar in the grapes and from this produce alcohol. They also

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The main difference between red and white wine making is that fermentation for reds almost always takes place in the

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It’s wonderful to see an old vineyard. The vines, with their gnarly trunks, have been growing and producing grapes for

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Dom Pérignon is a mere fable in the face of Saffer stalwart Pieter Ferreira. Famed for his monk-like dedication to

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There are lots of different ways of farming vineyards. Conventional, sustainable, organic, biodynamic – and now we have the newcomer