Whois & Analysis for wine.com

Champagne is a sparkling wine produced from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France following rules that demand, among other things, secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to create carbonation, specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from specific parcels in the Champagne appellation and specific pressing regimes unique to the region.

Some use the term Champagne as a generic term for sparkling wine, but in many countries, it is illegal to officially label any product Champagne unless it both comes from the Champagne region and is produced under the rules of the appellation.

White wine is a wine whose colour can be straw-yellow, yellow-green, or yellow-gold.

It is produced by the alcoholic fermentation of the non-coloured pulp of grapes, which may have a skin of any colour.

White wine has existed for at least 2500 years.

Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored (black) grape varieties.

The actual color of the wine can range from intense violet, typical of young wines, through to brick red for mature wines and brown for older red wines.

The juice from most purple grapes is greenish-white; the red color comes from anthocyan pigments (also called anthocyanins) present in the skin of the grape; exceptions are the relatively uncommon teinturier varieties, which produce a red colored.

Much of the red-wine production process therefore involves extraction of color and flavor components from the grape skin.