Known as a pupitre in French, the riddling rack is a wooden, A-frame rack with 45 degree downward angled holes that permit Champagne bottles, at this point still containing the lees (dead yeast cells post secondary fermentation) to be inverted and rotated systematically so the lees concentrate in the neck of the bottle for removal. This process, formally called riddling (remuage in French) is one of the required stages in traditional Champagne production and is still performed by hand at the best chateaux.
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