Carbonation: Chemistry Behind Prickly Past
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invention has produced a slew of imitation sparkling wines, a term that refers
to champagne-like drinks made outside the Champagne region of France. Occasionally, residual
yeast would find its way into wine, causing the bottles to shatter or their
corks to shoot out. Somewhere along the line, though, P gnon must have
discovered the wine from these defective bottles tasted pretty good. Realizing
this, he began to employ strong bottles and good, solid corks in order to make
a purposefully sparkling wine.
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