Sparkling wine lost in translation
Sparkling wine, as an upgrade from still wine and a newly sophisticated beverage of added value, if produced using the natural Dom Perignon method, requires a lot of time, knowledge, skill, and certain more demanding prerequisites to achieve the desired result.
When successful, a proud winemaker pours the product of their knowledge and perseverance into a special glass and begins to enjoy the fine, dense bubbles in the sparkling wine.
But oh, what a shame! Someone creative unintentionally decided to undermine sparkling wine as a refined drink on its own. They suggest “enriching” the glass of sparkling wine with lots of ice, some fruit syrup, or liqueur.
What a shock! Where did the true, original, and authentic sparkling wine go after so much effort? Was it necessary to cruelly trivialize sparkling wine to just a base for all sorts of arbitrary additions?
If someone likes it that way, they’re welcome to it, but we believe that creativity shouldn’t be overdone, it’s unnecessary. After all the creativity already involved in the process of making sparkling wine, degrading this sophisticated beverage to a base for various substances that completely alter the nature of the wine.
One of the unnecessary post-cultural interventions of our time in the world of sparkling wine.