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| Champagne Racks. | | | | Daily, over the next few weeks, the riddler twists |
| Riddling racks are central to the process of | | | | every bottle a few degrees. Simultaneously, he raises |
| manufacturing Champagne. After the sparkling wine | | | | the bottle bottom indiscernibly, lowering the neck only a |
| has aged on the lees, it is ready for the concluding | | | | centimeter or two each week. In the beginning, all the |
| stages. Riddling, or remuage, is the process designed | | | | bottles seem to be almost horizontal. After a few |
| to collect the sediment in a bottle and deposit it near | | | | weeks, however, the bottles are slanted to a |
| the mouth of the bottle. | | | | 60-degree angle and are neck-down in their holes. |
| The bottles are inclined at a 45-degree angle on a | | | | After the wine has been riddled, the bottles are placed |
| riddling rack, comprising two simple rectangular boards | | | | in a freezing solution for several minutes. Once an ice |
| hinged at the top. Each side is bored with six | | | | plug has formed in the necks, they are placed vertically |
| bottleneck-size holes, along ten rows. Thus each | | | | on the conveyor line, and continue to the disgorging |
| riddling rack can hold 120 bottles although there are | | | | machine, which removes the crown caps from the |
| special models for large containers. The riddler places | | | | bottles. As a result, the pressure within the bottles |
| the neck of a bottle of Champagne into each of the | | | | shoots out (disgorges) the ice plug (with the frozen |
| holes. A painted line on the bottom of each bottle acts | | | | sediment trapped in it). |