Does natural champagne exist? It is with this question which still and always agitates the world of natural wine that the idea of this selection germinated in our mind. Although it is a wine like any other - whose genius consists in bringing together a multitude of terroirs under one and the same appellation - champagne remains for many a drink apart. A wine that would escape any attempt at categorization, including that of natural wines. Because if we stick to the definition of the Association des Vins Naturels (AVN), it must be a wine "
whose grapes are from organic or biodynamic agriculture, vinified and put into bottle without any input or additive
".
However, the Champagne method of dosage, which consists in adding a liqueur to the wine - a mixture of reserve wines and sugar - after disgorging therefore seems incompatible with the use of the word “natural” as understood by AVN.
But rather than opening the debate here on the possibility or not of producing a “natural” champagne, we preferred to speak of champagnes of emotion,
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