Comparison of the manufacturing methods betwenn crémant and clairette wines
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Ancestral Dioise Method
Clairette de Die |
Traditional Method
Crémant de Die |
Grape variety:
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- White Muscat with small grains
(75 to 100%)
- Clairette variety (25 % maximum)
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- White Clairette variety (55% min)
- Aligoté (10 to 40%)
- White Muscat with small grains (5 to 10%)
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Collect of grapes:
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- Grape harvest by hand
- Treading of grapes
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- Grape harvest by hand.
- Arrival of entire grapes in the press.
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Pressing:
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- Discontinuous horizontal wine presses
- Selection of juices pressed
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- Pressing in wine presses of type Crémant
- Extraction of juices 100 litres for 150 kg of grapes
- Separation of juices pressed for the selection of vats
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Filtration of juices:
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Juices racked:
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- Very slow fermentation
- In cold stainless steel vats
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- Complete fermentation
- At temperature controlled (18 to 20°)
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Half-fermented juices:
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Dry white wine
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Putting in bottles:
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- Resumption of the fermentation after putting in bottles
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- Addition of the liquor of edition (sugar + yeast) for the second fermentation
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Fermentation in bottles:
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- From 6 to 12 months in cold cellar
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- From 12 months to 3 years in cold cellar
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Decanting:
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Moving:
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- Stop of the fermentation in bottles before exhaustion of sugars of grape
- Decanting of bottles
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- Manual moving or automatic moving
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Filtration:
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Discharging / Proportioning
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- Elimination of deposit by cold filtration
- Refill up the bottle
- No liquor added
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- Elimination of the deposit by freezing of collars and automatic discharging.
- Addition of the liquor
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Corking – Muzzling
Packaging – Storage
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Charasteristics:
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- Lightness in alcohol 7° vol.
- No liquor added
- Residual sugar from 40 to 55 g
- A method that that allows obtaining the only Muscat wine naturally effervescent.
- The only Method that preserves the aromas of Muscat
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- 11.5 to 12° vol.
- An analogue method to that of Champagne particularly strict on the yield, the wine press, the time of ageing.
- The obligatory approval of the centre of pressing and the tasting of the finished product guarantee quality.
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