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  • Ancestral method
  • AOC
  • AOP
  • Appellation
  • Assemblage
  • ATM
  • Autolysis
  • Autolytic
  • Balthazar
  • Base Wine
  • Bead
  • Blanc de blancs
  • Blanc de noirs
  • Bouchon
  • Brix
  • Brut
  • Brut nature
  • Caucadre
  • Chalk
  • Chaptalization
  • Charmat
  • Chaufrette
  • CIVC
  • CM (cooperative-manipulant)
  • Continental climate
  • Cramant
  • Crayères
  • Crémant
  • Cru
  • Cuvée
  • Cuvée close
  • Cuvée de prestige
  • Débourbage
  • Dégorgement
  • Demi-Sec
  • Disgorging
  • Dosage
  • Doux
  • Echelle de crus
  • Encépagement
  • Extra Brut
  • Extra Dry
  • Extra Sec
  • Grand cru
  • Gyropalette
  • Hectare
  • House
  • INAO
  • Jéroboam
  • Kimmeridgean marl
  • Late-disgorged
  • Lattes
  • Lees
  • Liqueur de tirage
  • Liqueur d’expédition
  • MA (marque auxiliaire, marque d'acheter, or marque autorisée)
  • Magnum
  • Marc
  • Maritime climate
  • Mediterranean climate
  • Méthode champenoise
  • Methuselah
  • Millésime
  • Monopole
  • Mousse
  • Mousseux
  • Muselet
  • ND (négociant-distributeur)
  • Nebuchandnezzar
  • Négociant
  • NM (négociant-manipulants)
  • Non-vintage (NV)
  • Oeil de perdrix
  • Perlage
  • Pétillant
  • Prémier cru
  • Prestige cuvée
  • Prise de Mousse
  • Punt
  • Pupitre
  • Rain shadow effect
  • RC (récoltant-coopérateur)
  • RD
  • Réhoboam
  • Rémuage
  • Residual sugar
  • Riddling
  • RM (récoltant-manipulant)
  • Rural Method (of sparkling wine production)
  • Saignée
  • Salamanazar
  • Sec
  • Skin contact
  • SR (société de récoltants)
  • Still wine
  • Structure
  • Sur lie
  • Sur pointe
  • Taille
  • Tank method
  • Terroir
  • Tête de Cuvée
  • Tirage
  • Traditional method
  • Transfer method
  • Transversage
  • Vin de Paille
  • Vin Jaune
  • Vins clairs
  • Vintage

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