Riddling (remuage) of champagne bottles
Removido (remuage) de botellas de champán
- Date
- 1816 · confidence medium
- Place
- Reims, France
- Credited to
- Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin (1816)
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Technique for clarifying champagne by gradually rotating and tilting bottles neck-down in a perforated rack, so sediment from the second fermentation collects in the neck and can be disgorged; devised by Barbe-Nicole Clicquot-Ponsardin (Veuve Clicquot).
What it led to
- clear champagne with no visible sediment
- standardization of the riddling rack across Champagne
- later mechanization of riddling (gyropalettes)
- improved quality and prestige of French champagne