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Dosage

Typically a mixture of sugar and wine that is added to Champagne and other sparkling wines. There are two ways that a dosage is employed in making sparkling wine. The first dosage is added to the bottle along with some yeast. This initiates the secondary fermentation that produces the bubbles in sparkling wine. The second dosage, sometimes called a shipping dosage, is added following disgorgement. This dosage replaces any wine lost in disgorgement and adds some residual sugar to the wine.
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