{"id":8305,"date":"2013-06-24T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2013-06-24T08:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:52:19","slug":"watch-a-winemaker-disgorge-a-bottle-of-sparkling-wine-by-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/24\/watch-a-winemaker-disgorge-a-bottle-of-sparkling-wine-by-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Winemaker Disgorge a Bottle of Sparkling Wine by Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/lecepdargent31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8316\" style=\"border: 5px solid transparent;\" title=\"lecepdargent3\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/lecepdargent31-e1372081810151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a>Champagne from Champagne, France and sparkling wines are very similar. Of course, in France the Champagnes must be produced with grapes only from the Champagne region. Bottles of Champagne can be very expensive and not available to many people.<\/p>\n<p>To the rescue are sparkling wines. In Italy there are Proseccos and in Spain there are Cavas. The similarity between sparkling wines and Champagnes may include riddling, disgorgement and more. However, there are different procedures for making sparkling wines. Some wineries use carbonation to make sparkling wines.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent visit to Quebec wineries with <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/winetourismtravel.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">In Vino Veritas<\/span><\/a><\/span>, we visited <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cepdargent.com\/en\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Le Cep d\u2019Argent<\/span><\/a><\/span> where we were very fortunate to have an opportunity to visit with Fran\u00e7ois Scieur, the winemaker and master of sparkling wines. At Le Cep d\u2019Argent sparkling wines are riddled and disgorged by hand. Fran\u00e7ois demonstrated disgorgement of a bottle of sparkling wine by hand. Fran\u00e7ois and his brother, Jean-Paul, are from a 6<sup>th<\/sup> generation winemaking family in Champagne. Today their brother continues the family\u2019s winery in Champagne.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to capture a short video of Fran\u00e7ois\u2019 demonstration of disgorgement by hand. The video is available on YouTube at <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z6Hs2kzhD7I\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z6Hs2kzhD7I<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about visiting\u00a0Le Cep d\u2019Argent:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/canada\/lecepdargent.php<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Watch A Winemaker Disgorge a Bottle of Sparkling Wine by Hand\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=8305\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent visit to Quebec, we visited Le Cep d\u2019Argent where we were very fortunate to have an opportunity to talk with Fran\u00e7ois Scieur the winemaker and master of sparkling wines. Fran\u00e7ois demonstrated disgorgement of a bottle of sparkling wine by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[175,2884,2885,2874,149,2824],"class_list":["post-8305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-champagne","tag-disgorgement","tag-le-cep-dargent","tag-quebec","tag-sparkling-wine","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8317,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}