I think I’ve been a little too serious lately. And, before I switch to a more business like topic, I thought I’d share some really useful research with you today…
It’s time to alter the way you pour my champagne, according to new research. (This research was appropriately performed at the University of Reims in Champagne, France. This kind of research would never happen here, because some politician would complain about the waste of taxpayer funds!). You can read the rest of my blog- but in a nutshell- pour champagne like beer, angling the glass and pouring down the sides. This preserves both taste and carbon dioxide (fizz to you non-techies 🙂 ). You can find the research results published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry.
We know from older research that dissolved carbon dioxide enhances the flavor of champagne. This newer study (Gerard Liger-Belair headed the research team- too bad we were not included to sample the wares- determined that chilling champagne also enhances the flavor.
The basic study examined the loss of carbon dioxide that occurs during pouring, as well as the effect of temperature (they studied the temperatures of 4, 12, and 18 C – temperatures that we don’t even consider here in the States [again, that’s 40, 54 and 65 for your non-metric Luddites]. Using the “beer-pour” technique and having the champagne flow along the fluted wall of the gas provided more laminar flow and released less gas (the opposite of laminar is turbulent- got it now????). The colder temperatures were better, as well. We no longer can see graphical results for the “pour” process and the temperature effects; the journal has removed it.
Guess what? The next step is to construct a mathematical model to describe the de-carbonation process during pouring. (Too bad, that does not seem to involve any tasting!)
Yikes, Roy. I’m reading your post and it has various strange characters sprinkled throughout. Were you doing tests on Champagne to make sure the research was correct and maybe you drank a little too much?
Yes. I admit that many of my posts from before late 2010 are in a shambles. Right about March or April of 2011, my site was attacked. (It has been attacked many times since, but I am much more sophisticated in protecting it now.) I repaired several months of posts- and thought I would get around it to it one day… and you know how that turned out.
So sorry that you found one of the posts. It’s fixed now. And, I’ve added it to my “to do” list- but my list is pretty long…
To anyone else who finds such posts- please let me know. I’ll fix them ASAP- and out of queue.