Aa Aa Aa Once upon a time, many, many years ago, a man found a closed fruit jar ... produced wine and beer, but no one fully understood why the recipe worked. The process was named fermentation ...

Ancestral Method: An inexpensive but risky and difficult-to-control method of producing sparkling wine, and almost certainly the oldest, in which the primary fermentation is stopped before completing, ...

A less expensive, mass-production method for producing bulk quantities of sparkling wine. The second fermentation takes place in a pressurized tank, rather than in a bottle, decreasing lees contact ...