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Article: UNDER THE INFLUENCE.(Champagne.)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Swiss News
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Upon tasting champagne for the first time, Dom Perignon called Out to his fellow monks: "Come quickly, I'm drinking stars!"
Champagne. Its very name bubbles. It is one of the most celebrated and celebratory wines of history. It has launched ships, cheered the end of wars, toasted weddings and shared untold intimate moments of love, laughter and tears. It is without doubt the world's most enduring and instantly recognised symbol of victory and accomplishment. Come this month's end, record bottles will be uncorked and drunk in worldwide celebration of the millennium.
Although so-called champagnes are produced around the world, as the not-so-suave Benjamin ...