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The reasons for riddling ...
Riddling is one of the seven stages needed to make champagne or other sparkling wines made by the traditionnal method :
1. Harvest
2. Pressing
2. Pressing
3. Fermentation
4. Blending
4. Blending
5. Racking
6. Riddling
6. Riddling
7. Disgorgement
Riddling is the operation specific to the champagne method. It consists in bringing together the lees produced by the second fermentation and gradually moving them down into the neck of the bottle by rotating and tilting the bottle.
Depending on the Champagne House, the riddling operations are : inversing the bottle, riddling, returning the bottle.
Some wine-growers do this by hand on pupiters, in which case the riddling can take at least three weeks for each bottle.
It was to free wine-growers from this laborious task and to save space and time that Oeno Concept invented the Gyropalette®.
These machines, entirely automated, born out of meticulous savoir-faire and a deep knowledge of our customers’ needs, make use of programs that run up in a medium days maximum, adjustable according to the wines to be riddled.
Depending on the Champagne House, the riddling operations are : inversing the bottle, riddling, returning the bottle.
Some wine-growers do this by hand on pupiters, in which case the riddling can take at least three weeks for each bottle.
It was to free wine-growers from this laborious task and to save space and time that Oeno Concept invented the Gyropalette®.
These machines, entirely automated, born out of meticulous savoir-faire and a deep knowledge of our customers’ needs, make use of programs that run up in a medium days maximum, adjustable according to the wines to be riddled.