Discovery of the Day

[pasithea]

Carbonating regular wine to make ghetto champagne does in fact create fizzy wine but... It's really nothing like champagne.

Comments

[viesti.livejournal.com]

But... ZOMG! It's not champagne unless it's made in France! The Pretentious European Bottlers Keeping Authentic Champagne said so!

[salia-chan.livejournal.com]

What method did you use to make it fizzy?

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Adding compressed carbon dioxide, the simplest way.

This is actually what they do with poorly-carbonating sparkling wines. But they usually use overly sweet, not oaky, aged wine. ^-^

[salia-chan.livejournal.com]

Ah, figured it was that way. I've used dry ice to carbonate random things, but I wasn't sure it'd be all that useful for what you were wanting or not; never tried, just with Italian soda mixes and such. Iirc, there's a chemical method, but I don't know if it wouldn't do truly strange things to the taste of whatever you were using it on.

Mew.