Who Invented méthode champenoise?

Authors

  • James Crowden Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27829

Keywords:

champagne, France, iconic foods, preparations & techniques, origins, verre anglais, bottling procedures, 17th-century, sparkling beverages, cider manufacture, Great Britain, mantling, huguenot , secondary fermentation

Abstract

The author tackles the question of who invented or pioneered that rather complex process of encouraging and then containing a secondary fermentation with a little extra sugar and wild yeast? 

Author Biography

  • James Crowden, Independent Scholar

    James Crowden is author of Cider: the Forgotten Miracle (1999) and Ciderland (2008), as well as Cider Country (2021). Not merely writing about cider and orchards, James has many books to his credit spanning poetry, topography and history, much of it concerned with the south-western counties of England.

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Published

2021-08-01

Issue

PPC 120 (2021)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Crowden, James. 2021. “Who Invented méthode Champenoise?”. Petits Propos Culinaires, August, 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27829.