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America became mad on low-alcohol
and non-alcohol wines, malt- and wine-ba-
sed premixes (RTDs). Do you expect, these
carbonated premixes can threaten natural
sparkling wines?
Sparkling seltzer type products like White
Claw, Truly, and others are very popular, parti-
cularly among younger adult Americans. There
is both threat and opportunity for the sparkling
wine market. Sure the success of seltzers takes
market away from other adult beverages, most-
ly beer. However, it just reminds us that US con-
sumers like bubbles in their beverages. Maybe
young drinkers will move on from seltzers to
sparkling wines, who knows… ƅ

How Many Bubbles Are in a Bottle of Sparkling Wine

All sources seem to point to the research of he still needed to calculate the volume of an
scientist Bill Lembeck, who calculated the vo- average bubble.
lume of CO2 in a 750 milliliter bottle of Cham- Using an optical comparator, Lembeck de-
pagne and divided that number by the volu- termined the average bubble diameter, and
me of an average bubble. compared the volume of the CO dissolved in
2
He already knew that the average pressure the liquid with it. Lastly, he divided this avai-
in a Champagne bottle was 5.5 atmospheres lable volume of gas by that of the average
at 20 degrees Celsius. Accordingly, a 750 milli- bubble. And that’s how Lembeck got 49 mil-
liter bottle contains 4,125 milliliters (252 cubic lion bubbles at 20 degrees Celsius. But your
inches) of gas dissolved in the wine. The gas sparkling wine is colder. Then, something be-
is not released until the cork is removed. But tween 50-55 millions is the result.
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