Tastevin
A shallow, silver tasting cup used by a SOMMELIERThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Sur Lie
Sur lie is French for “on the lees,” and lees for their part are expired yeast cells.The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Sommelier
The French term for a wine steward, which has also been appropriated by The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Sélection de Grains Nobles
In Alsace, the term for wines made from veryThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Sec
French for DRY. In wine, however, the opposite is usually true.The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Rémuage
The RIDDLING (rotating and tilting) of Champagne bottles to concentrateThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Rosé Champagne
A pink Champagne. The rosé color, which actually ranges from translucentThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Prise de mousse
Literally, “capturing the sparkle,” a term for the secondary fermentationThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.Pét-Nat
Pét-Nat is a contraction of the French term pétillant-naturel (natural sparkling).The following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.
“The wine one drinks from one’s glass depends on a vast number of thingsThe following content is accessible for members only, please sign in.