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Article: Battle of the bubbles.(The Good Life)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- October 26, 2009
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Byline: Tara Weingarten
It's mid-September, fall harvest at the Veuve Clicquot vineyard in the ancient hamlet of Verzy in France's Champagne region. I am scooting along the impeccably manicured rows of chardonnay grapes, snipping the dense clusters of fruit and tossing them into a basket. That's not dirt on my blue jeans, it's coveted terroir. The vines, shaved into short, orderly slivers of foliage so that only a few perfectly shaped full clusters remain, epitomize the French obsession with controlling every step of its viticulture: neat, trim, precise. The fruit that grows on these vines will one day be sold as Clicquot's highest-quality -product--its Atete du ...
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Article: Perfecto Prosecco; Liquid news.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);
June 5, 2009 ;
481 words
... ... much cheaper than champagne. He meant well ... unfair to measure prosecco's merits on a cost ... referred to as Venetian champagne, which is a bit ... different. While good champagne is yeasty and dry, prosecco is lighter and more ...
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