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From: tjj@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Champagne - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 16:38:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 16:38:48 1983
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Agreed that THE ORIGINAL champagne is from the province of France called
Champagne, and, to quote Alexis Lichine, "The only wine with any right to the
name Champagne is that made from certain legally specified grapes grown in
limited and well-defined sections of...".  However, since this argument has
been going on, both off and on, for as long as Frenchmen {net.women readers
please close your eyes} have seen fit to complain about such things, I
sincerely hope we don't have to duplicate a century of argument in this group.

There have been attempts from time to time to call wines made according to the
champagne process by other names if not from Champagne.  You may still see
some labels that refer to Sparkling Wine, Champagne-style, or similar epithets.
Some California vintners even take the trouble to include reference to Charmat
(a process for bulk fermentation of sparkling wine originated in 1910 by a
French enologist of the same name) or bottle fermentation on their labels.

I know that the finest Champagne is, for example, Dom Perignon, but I think
that Christian Brothers, Krug, and several others make a bloody fine imitation.
There is even an excellent champagne-style wine originating from the
Stellenbosch area known as Here XVII.  Didn't someone once say something about
imitation being the finest form of flattery?  Drink and enjoy!!

TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper
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