Hoicked from here
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Judging from those "before" and "after" pics, that's one hell of a weight-loss drug!
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