Wine Term: Cuvée
Cuvée (noun): When referring to sparkling wine, and mainly an issue with Champagne, this tag may imply that wine is non vintage. Sometimes grapes from several years are blended together. Reasons might be to add more depth from older vintages or when fruit from certain years is not up to par.
Wineries also put this term on labels for still wine or as part of the name when there are several different varieties of grapes, as in a blend.
Cuvée, wine blend, sparkling wine, Champagne
I’ve got a bottle of Prosecco ready and was saving this post for today, so I could say Happy New Year! Break out the bubbles!





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