HOS101
Food and Beverage Operations
Management
Topic 8 - Wine 2 (Sparkling and Dessert Wines)
, Champagne, sparkling and dessert wine
• Champagne
• Methode Champenoise
• Styles of Champagne
• Myths, Truths and Legends of Champagne
• Sparkling wines
• Dessert wines
• Fortified dessert wines
• Wine Pairing
•“I drink it (Champagne) when I’m happy and when I am sad. Sometimes I drink it when I am alone.
When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise, I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty”- Madame Lily Bollinger
Blue Mountains International Hotel
Version 1 2
Management School
, Champagne
“Remember, gentleman, it’s not France we are
fighting for, it’s Champagne!” Winston Churchill
Sparkling wine from Champagne in
France
Champagne: approximately 140km
Northeast of Paris.
Main Champagne cities are Epernay
and Reims
82,000 acres of vineyards
Source: Wine Folly (2014)
Terroir: thin layer of soil on chalk,
warm in summer, adequate rainfall,
cold winters.
Blue Mountains International Hotel
Version 1 3
Management School
Food and Beverage Operations
Management
Topic 8 - Wine 2 (Sparkling and Dessert Wines)
, Champagne, sparkling and dessert wine
• Champagne
• Methode Champenoise
• Styles of Champagne
• Myths, Truths and Legends of Champagne
• Sparkling wines
• Dessert wines
• Fortified dessert wines
• Wine Pairing
•“I drink it (Champagne) when I’m happy and when I am sad. Sometimes I drink it when I am alone.
When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am.
Otherwise, I never touch it – unless I’m thirsty”- Madame Lily Bollinger
Blue Mountains International Hotel
Version 1 2
Management School
, Champagne
“Remember, gentleman, it’s not France we are
fighting for, it’s Champagne!” Winston Churchill
Sparkling wine from Champagne in
France
Champagne: approximately 140km
Northeast of Paris.
Main Champagne cities are Epernay
and Reims
82,000 acres of vineyards
Source: Wine Folly (2014)
Terroir: thin layer of soil on chalk,
warm in summer, adequate rainfall,
cold winters.
Blue Mountains International Hotel
Version 1 3
Management School