Winemaking process consulting
– Selecting the style of sparkling wine wanted.
– Adapting press programm and must processing depending on vintage, grapes shapes, grapes-varieties and sanitary state.
– Establishment of winemaking protocol and steps planning (AF temperature, yeast choice, starter protocol, MLF, racking period, clarification, ageing, stabilization method depending on selected style of wine).
– Adapting picking samples during harvest and winemaking and selecting parameters to analyzed at each step.
– Musts and wines tasting at each winemaking step.
– Interpretation of analysis during the whole process.
– Blend tasting depending of style of wine, personnality choosen, and ageing.
– Starter protocol for bottling, tips for bottling preparation, making liqueur and selecting caps.
– Choosing wine for liqueur.
– Dosage test tasting to get the best balance
– Selecting corks.
– Tasting sheet / Cuvee sheet creation.
Price on demand $
Blending
– Learning of each cuvée (personnality, style, ageing, history, story-telling, characteristic, data market).
– Base wines tasting
– Blending (depending on base wines quality and given informations).
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Analysis reading
– Selecting parameters to analyzed depending on step
– Reading and explaining.
– Actions to follow
Price on demand $
Dosage tasting
– Implementation of the test protocol
– Choosing ageing before tasting
– Tasting and selection of the right dosage
Price on demand $
Trouble solving
– Informations seeking to identify the trouble and being more precise on the solving.
– Suggestion of a list of parameters to analyze and observation to do by a lab.
– Trouble identification
– Solving solution (if possible) and process changes to avoid it.
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Why Zero Dosage Consulting?
Maximilien’s experience and knowledges are unique. Working with so many growers and houses of Champagne since 2008 as consultant winemaker before becoming Cellar Master and Head of Wines of the Laurent-Perrier Group Maximilien has a wide range of skills in the entire production process of sparkling wines as well as in the science of winemaking. Also travelling the world as consultant, Maximilien adapts winemaking processes according to grape varieties, equipment and local conditions. He is the ideal partner to accompany you in the production of your sparkling wines and make them reach a high quality level.