Cuve Close

Cuve close meaning in sparkling wine

Cuve close means “closed tank” and is a French name for the broad Charmat, Martinotti, or tank method route. A base wine undergoes secondary fermentation in a sealed pressure tank. The sparkling wine can then be clarified or filtered under pressure and filled into bottles under isobaric conditions.

The phrase does not supply a universal tank size, temperature, duration, pressure, sweetness, grape, or quality level. Those details come from the producer and the applicable product specification. The Charmat method entry owns the main definition; the sparkling wine methods guide compares the route with bottle, transfer, ancestral, and carbonation processes.