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Add the cremant or Champagne and bring to a rapid boil.

Vibrant, lively with creamy depth: the best cremant on the market.

Here, a California sparkling wine would be a better choice than the cremant, even though the price would be hard to beat.

Important quantities of sparkling wine, called Cremant de Loire, are made with the grape.

There is also a recent nonvintage cremant, a sparkling wine with only about half the pressure of traditional Champagnes and sparkling wines.

For example, the sparkling wine by the glass is Tissot's fine Cremant du Jura.

Geographically speaking, the closest options are the sparkling wines of Burgundy, known as Cremant de Bourgogne.

If you would prefer an imported sparkling wine, try a sparkling Vouvray or a Cremant from Alsace.

A sparkling Cremant cleaned the palate after a desert of sticky Munster cheese with mango sorbet and white meringue.

Abarbanel Cremant d'Alsace, a sophisticated, steely kosher sparkling wine, adds a dimension to summertime sabbath fish and chicken dinners.

It is situated on the Cremant Road and near the future National Park of Forests of Champagne and Burgundy.

But it freely uses "methode champenoise" and calls its various wines demi-sec cremant, blanc de blancs, brut and brut rose.

The house sparklers, also poured by the glass, are the fine cremant d'Alsace by Willm and a workmanlike Champagne, Nicholas Feuillatte.

His Cremant de Loire fizz, made by the same method as champagne, was voted our best fizz tasted by my Loire tour tasting group.

These include German Sekt, Spanish Espumoso, Italian Spumante and French Cremant or Mousseux wines.

This is also an appropriate role for nonvintage sparkling wines like the Maison Guinot Cremant de Limoux Brut Cuvee Imperial.

In 1975, they obtained the AOC label for a brand with a controlled origin (AOC) for Cremant de Bourgogne.

Another good sparkler from Burgundy is Cave de Vire's Cremant de Bourgogne, from the Macon region, which is made exclusively of chardonnay.

That is why Peter Meltzer, a co-owner of Quatorze, a bistro in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, serves Willm's Cremant as the house sparkler.

"I have high hopes for the U.S. and Britain," said Damien Guerault of the firm Bailly Lapierre which makes wines and sparkling cremant from Burgundy.

It is also permitted as an ingredient in the sparkling wines of the Cremant de Loire, Anjou AOC and Saumur AOC.

J. Laurens Cremant de Limoux Blanc de Blancs Brut, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, $11.00 A crisp sparkling wine that won't break the bank.

Alternatives: For a more champagne-like taste try Majestic's classy Californian Domaine Chandon Shadow Creek at £5.99 or Waitrose's Cremant de Bourgogne (£6.25).

Included are a bottle each of Schramsberg Reserve, Cuvee de Pinot, Blanc de Noirs and Cremant, and two of Blanc de Blancs.

Dark chocolate with sea salt also went well with a Brut Prosecco, a Brut Champagne or a Brut Rose Cremant from France's Alsace region, the group said.

And so to that other major French sparkling wine, crémant.

The use of the term 'crémant' must always be associated with a name identifying a production region.

The Commission has laid down the minimum requirements for the production of crémant.

If you cannot afford champagne to bring in the new year, stock up on this delicious crémant.

Luxembourg is the only country outside France entitled to use the term "crémant".

A tight, adroit and energetic crémant from a superb producer.

The term crémant may only be used on wine from France and Luxembourg.

As far as crémant is concerned, I will not dwell on matters that have already been covered.

But the Commission found it unacceptable for the term 'crémant' only to be used in regions which have traditionally produced this product.

These standards, of course, define a minimum quality level in order to be permitted to use the term 'crémant' .

The area also makes some sparkling Crémant de Bourgogne.

Sparkling wine made from the region is usually labeled as Crémant de Bourgogne.

There are also some other French appellations for sparkling wines, which do not carry the name Crémant.

I have heard about hotel labels, restaurant labels, McDonald's crémant.

Luxembourg mainly produces dry white wines and sparkling wine under the designation Crémant.

How about the excellent Crémant de Jura from Montbourgeau for $50?

Made using the same method as champagne from 100 per cent chardonnay, although Jura is allowed to use three other grapes in its crémant.

Following a judgment by the European Court of Justice, the term 'crémant' is now authorized on a wider basis.

I do, however, have just enough to sample the provided half-bottle of Crémant de Bourgogne fizz.

The area is a major source of sparkling Crémant de Bourgogne which benefit from cooler vintages.

Increasingly popular is Crémant de Bourgogne, Burgundy's sparkling white wine.

Moreover, the name 'crémant' represents a particular oenological method and must compulsorily be associated with a specific region within a Member State.

Its stylish sparklers, systematically one of the region's best, tend to resemble an understated Alsace version called crémant.

The Crémant de Loire which refers to any sparkling wine made according to the traditional method of Champagne.

Also popular is Luxembourg's Crémant, a sparkling wine produced in accordance with the traditional method for French champagne.