Cuvée
Also known as: cuvee
In short
The cuvée is the marriage in wine: base wines from different grapes, plots and sometimes vintages are composed into one whole. We explain the way from the vat, the champagne rule and the kinship to the blend.
In depth
What is a cuvée?
A cuvée is a marriage of several wines: base wines from different grape varieties, plots and sometimes vintages are composed into one whole. The word comes from the French cuve, the vat where the wines come together.
The champagne rule
In Champagne the cuvée names the blend of base wines before the second fermentation: first comes the marriage, then bottle fermentation, then the sparkle. The same path is the method behind our crémant entry of the same name.
The relatives
The sibling from the whisky world is the blend from our entry of the same name, the same idea, only with distillates: "The base makes the character, the ABV makes the strength, the blend makes the connection."
Remember this one
"Fermier means the farm, the cuvée the marriage, the crémant the sparkle from the regions."
At our lounge
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