Champagne
About Champagne
Champagne is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the AOC rules of the appellation, which demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, specific grape-pressing methods and secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to cause carbonation.
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Even though Louis XIV and Dom Perignon loved wine from the Champagne region, it was never actually fizzy in Dom Perignon's lifetime.
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More facts about Champagne
During the Second World War, houses in the Champagne region built false walls in their wine cellars to conceal the good stuff, and some like Bollinger mislabelled their best bottles as poison.
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Pol Roger are preparing to sell champagne by the pint again, saying one advantage of leaving the EU is being able to sell champagne by the pint.
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Champagne in Russia can now only be called champagne if it is made in Russia, and not in Champagne.
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King Louis XIV probably only liked champagne because he thought it got the germs off his hands better.
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