Different wines
Sparkling Wines
Wines with a second fermentation trapped in bottle or tank, from austere Champagne to gentle Prosecco.
Champagne
Champagne, France.
The benchmark for sparkling wine: a second fermentation in bottle followed by extended ageing on the lees.
Prosecco
Veneto, Italy.
Made by tank method so the fresh fruit character of Glera is preserved — light, floral and immediate.
Cava
Catalonia, Spain.
Spain's traditional-method sparkling wine, made largely in Penedès from indigenous grapes and aged in bottle.
Crémant
France — Alsace, Loire, Burgundy, Limoux and beyond.
Traditional-method French sparkling wine made outside Champagne, offering similar craft at gentler prices.
Franciacorta
Lombardy, Italy.
Italy's most prestigious sparkling wine, made by the traditional method in Lombardy with long lees ageing.
Sparkling Shiraz
Australia.
An Australian original: a deeply coloured, dry-to-off-dry sparkling red served chilled, traditionally at Christmas.