Comments on: Opening Sparkling Wine 101 http://winexpression.com/2006/02/27/opening-sparkling-wine-101/ Ratings, News, and more on Wine & Spirits since August 2003 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: jatemack http://winexpression.com/2006/02/27/opening-sparkling-wine-101/#comment-180 jatemack Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:22:44 +0000 http://winexpression.com/2006/02/27/opening-sparkling-wine-101/#comment-180 Marcus, YES! Thank you. The correct tempurature is amazingly important as well. Bummer about your Prestige Moingeon Brut Crémant de Bourgogne, lesson learned though. Thanks for the link.. Marcus,

YES! Thank you. The correct tempurature is amazingly important as well. Bummer about your Prestige Moingeon Brut Crémant de Bourgogne, lesson learned though. Thanks for the link..

]]> By: Marcus http://winexpression.com/2006/02/27/opening-sparkling-wine-101/#comment-176 Marcus Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:32:01 +0000 http://winexpression.com/2006/02/27/opening-sparkling-wine-101/#comment-176 Don't forget that what's inside the bottle must also be prepared. While flying foam isn't generally a safety issue like flying corks (that really sucks about your wife's Riedel), a lot of people including myself are not aware that getting sparkling wine to right temperature faciliates uncorking. If your temperature is off by too much, the bottle's going to erupt. I gathered a couple links on that sweet spot <a href="http://weingolb.blogspot.com/2006/02/chilled-to-bone-gele-jusqu-los.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Don’t forget that what’s inside the bottle must also be prepared. While flying foam isn’t generally a safety issue like flying corks (that really sucks about your wife’s Riedel), a lot of people including myself are not aware that getting sparkling wine to right temperature faciliates uncorking. If your temperature is off by too much, the bottle’s going to erupt. I gathered a couple links on that sweet spot here.

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