Champagne 101: It’s All About the Sugar

“Not all of us have the same taste. Some of us have a bit of a more sweet tooth, some of us do not like any kind of sweetness in our wine, so for this reason, there tends to be a lot of different varieties of sparkling wines that have different amounts of sugar levels…”

Sugar is on the table today as wine expert Deniz Bayram doles out a lesson on sweetness in sparkling wines. He takes a full tour of the topic starting from how winemakers control sweetness to the terminology used to describe the different levels of sweetness. Definitely a useful episode that will help any shopper understand sparkling wines at a glance.