Antique STYLE wood riddling wine bottle
holder or rack
ON SALE !! MSRP OF $159
Replica of a 19th century item
ours is not only handsome,
but much lighter than vintage ones and
thus do not cost a FORTUNE to ship
Saving you lots o' bucks
A collapseable rack that is :
Made out of Fir wood
48" tall by 18" wide
holds up to 36 bottles of the bubbly stuff
Reminiscent of Paris France champagne
distilleries from a by gone era
What is RIDDLING ?
It is one step in the traditional method of making Champagne or sparkling wine,
that helps to consolidate sediment by laying the bottles in a riddler
you can achieve this sediment removal process
Madame Nicole-Barbe Clicquot was said to have objected to the cloudy
appearance of Champagnes in early 1800s. It is said that the young widow
became head of Champagne Clicquot. Determined to improve the appearance
of her fine wines and champagnes , she found that shaking the bottles loosed
sediment stuck to their sides. The sediment would eventually settle to the
bottom if the bottles were left standing up right. In or to get the deposits
closer to the neck, she used gravity, cutting holes in her kitchen table to place the bottles upside down
NOW this process is nearly all entirely done by a machine invented in Spain
in the 1970s. Since they handle hundreds of bottles at the same time , gyropalettes are
both much more efficient and much more consistent at consolidating sediments than the
traditional antique or older hand turning process.
This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 20 May, 2012.
