What is champagne made of?
Champagne takes wine grapes, baker's yeast, wine, sugar and wine cork directly. Trace them back and you pass 26 made things on the way to 20 raw materials.
How champagne is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 20 raw materials
- Wine grapes goes straight in
- Water through sugar
- Sugarcane through sugar
- Sugar beet through sugar
- Cork oak bark through wine cork
- Timber through wine, oak wine barrel
- Pigs through wine, gelatin
- Cattle hide through wine, gelatin
- Limestone through sugar, quicklime
- Crude oil through wine cork, paraffin wax
- Silica sand through wine cork, silicone
- Natural gas through wine cork, paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Quartz through wine cork, silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Coal through wine cork, silicone, metallurgical silicon
- Iron ore through wine, oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Air through wine, oak wine barrel, steel, argon
- Dolomite through wine, oak wine barrel, steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through wine, oak wine barrel, steel, manganese
- Rock salt through wine cork, silicone, hydrochloric acid, chlorine
- Sulfur through wine, oak wine barrel, steel, manganese, sulfuric acid
Made along the way: 22 things
Metals 6
Chemicals and fuels 11
QuicklimeParaffin waxHydrogenMethanolHydrochloric acidOxygen gasArgonCharcoalChlorinePropaneSulfuric acid
Plastics and fibers 1
Wood and paper 1
Electronics 1
Food 2
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.