Many of us assume that sparkling wine is just another name for Champagne, but really, the definition refers specifically to the production process. Sparkling wine is made just about any area that actually produces wine. People love bubbly so just about any producer of wine will make a sparkling wine. Sparkling wine is any wine that has gone through a secondary fermentation.
What happens is that when you originally make wine you put all the juices into large containers and you add ingredients to start the fermentation process of the juices. That's the beginning stages of a normal production of what we would call still wine. Later, if you do that process again and you ferment the wine again it will start to bubble as it becomes oxygenated and that's what creates sparkling wine. Later in the process, sugar and yeast are both added. This promotes the next fermentation and forms the carbon dioxide bubbles. Sparkling wine comes from all over the world. The most famous of course, is champagne.
And all champagne is sparkling wine but not all sparkling wine is champagne. Champagne only comes from a region in France known as Champagne and then make the world's most famous and probably most beloved, definitely most expensive sparkling wine. Sparkling wine from California is the same as sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France,they are both wines that went through a secondary fermentation process. Generally speaking, sparkling wine just means a wine with bubbles or champagne depending on the region that it comes from
