Sparkling

Simply put, sparkling wine is a wine with bubbles. Red, white, or rosé, a wine with fizziness and effervescence, and often sealed with a caged, poppable cork, bottles of bubbly are produced all over the world. Wines from the Champagne region are the most recognizable and revered of these sparklers, but regional sparklers are made everywhere from Northern Canada to South Africa and Australia. French wines (and some California sparkling wines) are often referred to by the level of residual sugar left, with extra brut (meaning extra dry) followed by brut, sec, and demi-sec. Spanish Cava, Italian Prosecco, and German Sekt wines have their own terms but mainly don't address the sweetness in the name.

What are the best sparkling wines?

While France has the longest officially documented sparkling wine tradition in Champagne, there are many