{"id":3745,"date":"2011-11-01T22:49:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T22:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2011-11-01T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T22:49:38","slug":"at-the-sparkling-wine-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/champagne\/at-the-sparkling-wine-symposium","title":{"rendered":"At the sparkling wine symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just back from day 1 of the 2011\u00a0instalment\u00a0of the International Sparkling Wine Symposium<\/a>, held at Denbies wine estate in Dorking, Surrey.<\/p>\n

I’m one of the organizing committee, so it was a day on duty, hoping things went well. Did they? Yes, absolutely. It was a great day.<\/p>\n

I can’t hope to summarize proceedings adequately here (I’m tired, and it’s day 2 tomorrow, so I need some sleep). Nor can I give you nice pictures – I lent my camera to Kate Willacy to take the official pictures, so all I have is just a few cameraphone snaps. But I’ll give a brief description.<\/p>\n

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Things kicked off with Dr Bertrand Robillard, who talked about the jetting technique that minimizes oxygen pick up at bottling – a major cause of bottle to bottle variation in Champagne and sparkling wine. He was followed by Jaume Gramona, a researcher and winemaker, who discussed autolytic flavours in fizz and their origin.<\/p>\n

Arthur O’Connor and Bruno Colomer from Codorniu then led an interesting tasting session where we experienced a range of Cava base wines comparing different fermentation conditions. This was followed by Herve Jestin’s somewhat esoteric presentation on biodynamic winemaking (not viticulture) – he is eliminating the use of sulfur dioxide through biodynamic techniques. Jane Robichaud of TFC followed by talking about reduced-alcohol sparkling wines and their potential market.<\/p>\n

After lunch, Pieter Ferriera talked about Methode Cap Classique – bottle-fermented sparkling wines from South Africa – while Mario Geisse discussed Brazilian sparkling wines. Nicola Jenkin led us to the tea break with a talk on sustainability and carbon footprints: sparkling wine bottles are heavy, but they can be made lighter.<\/p>\n

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Sam Harrop and Mike Florence introduced the Sparkling Wine Review, and some of the conclusions from the first two years, and then it was time for the closures discussion, which I got to chair. We had Paulo Lopes (Amorim), John Brooks (Zork) and Dominic Tournieux (Diam\/Mytik) describe their sparkling wine closures, followed by Pierre-Yves Bournerias who talked about the use of crown caps with liners of differing oxygen transmission as tools for shaping wine style during the secondary fermentation in bottle.<\/p>\n

Then, the grand tasting. Great fun to be able to try so many different sparkling wines from around the world. I’m looking forward to tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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