Raisin brings sparkling wine back to life

WINE TALK
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Just saw on the Today show that dropping a raisin into a bottle of sparkling wine that’s been opened for a long time (e.g. overnight) will bring back the fizz. What’s the science behind this?

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That those two will drink a glass of bubbly even if you drop a turd in it. [snort.gif] champagne.gif

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Works best with Andre’ or Korbel

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Old wife’s tale akin to the silver spoon. I does provide more nucleation surface, but this would only dissipate carbon dioxide more quickly.

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Funniest post of 2017! champagne.gif

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If the carbon dioxide is gone, it’s gone. There’s no way to get back into the wine from the atmosphere.

In other words, once it’s gone flat, it will be harder to revive than Matt Lauer’s career.

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Scott - I’ll try to forgive you for watching this turd of a show in the 1st place. [wink.gif]

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I’d guess the theory is that it’s a time release sugar source for the yeast to consume.

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Just the answers I expected from a bunch of Berserkers!

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I think you found your raisin d’etre.

Happy holidays,

Hal

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My wife dropped this same story on me last night, too. I told her there is no way I am putting dried fruit in champagne, whether it works or not. Let’s all not forget one thing here, ok…champagne is first (and always will be) terrific still wine. If the bubbles go away, why are we trying to resurrect them? It’s supposed to happen.

Next thing we will hear about is a dosage ‘booster’. You can buy it at Total Wine, and you simply drop it into your champagne to make the most awesome dosage appear. Make any nice champagne even more sweet than ever.

newhere

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/other/can-a-raisin-make-flat-champagne-bubbly-again/vi-BBH9FIN

Enjoy all . . .

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Time to ‘get busy with the fizzy’


… or not

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Guessing its the nucleation points to give the appearance of new bubbles.

I don’t know the history that well, but IIRC sparkling wine from Champagne came about because historically the wines were substandard as still wines. ¯_(ツ)_/¯