Sparkling wine keeps really well with little effort. Pexels
How do you save a part-drunk bottle of sparkling wine?
Lay a burnt match across the opening? Or a single human hair?
No joke, those just might be as sensible as using a clamp or other kind of ‘saver’. Let’s not even mention the expensive Coravin Sparkling gadget.
I routinely keep bottles of fizz from my tastings with an efficient clamp or saver closure on them for days, weeks, even months with no loss of quality.
It’s not that the burnt match or hair is playing an important role, it’s more that doing nothing at all is a pretty good solution. As long as you keep the bottle in the fridge.
I took a single glass out of a bottle of young, premium-quality Australian méthode traditionnelle (bottle fermented) sparkling, left the open bottle in a domestic refrigerator and after 24 hours at 4 degrees Celsius, it was just as fresh and just as fizzy. It had lost nothing.
I then took two more small glasses from it, so the level was a bit over half-full. Another 24 hours in the fridge, again with nothing holding the gas in, and it was still good. Maybe not as good as after Day One, but certainly good enough for anyone to enjoy.
It’s a theory of mine that most bubbly afficionados don’t realise that sparkling wine keeps really well with little effort. I routinely keep bottles of fizz from my tastings with an efficient
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