Also known as charmat, a less expensive method for making sparkling wine. The tank method is used to produce bulk quantities of inexpensive sparkling wines. The second fermentation takes place in a ...

they will die and settle to the bottom of a tank where a winemaker will then separate or "rack" the wine away from the ...

What happens next depends on the type of wine. To make red wine, winemakers send the must directly to the fermentation tanks.