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The Invisible Gas in Sparkling Wine
5:35N16AAfter Level 5 — Champagne
Glossary
Terms that have earned their place
- Henry’s law
- At fixed temperature, dissolved gas concentration is related to the gas’s partial pressure above the liquid.
- Dissolved gas
- Gas present in the liquid at the molecular scale.
- Controlled comparison
- A comparison that holds relevant conditions steady while investigating a particular difference.
Keep digging
Sources and further reading
- Molecular motion and gas pressure; elementary model, not bottle measurements.
- Gas solubility, partial pressure, temperature and supersaturation.
- Champagne bottle fermentation and trapped carbon dioxide.
- Comité Champagne service guidance; not a controlled preference trial.
- 2010 pouring experiment: temperature and tilted-glass pouring affect dissolved CO2 loss.
- 2009 outgassing experiment: temperature and gas-loss kinetics.
Sources support the teaching model; they do not make promotional regional descriptions universal bottle guarantees.