Lean, Mean Rotating Machine
When hand-riddling sparkling wines, which is the task of moving sediment and deposits to the neck of the bottle, the correct flick of the wrist is called the coup de poignet. Before automatic riddling became universally used, the most talented “riddlers” (remueurs)
were important figures in the cellars who could turn as many as 75,000-80,000 bottles in a day.
