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Article: Simply sparkling
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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There are many reasons to admire the French: Coco Chanel, the
Gallic shrug, and the fact that French women don't get fat, just for
starters. Top of my list, however, would be the invention of
champagne. Scandalously, it has been claimed that champagne was
actually first produced by an Englishman more commonly associated
with cider-making, around 30 years before Benedictine monk Dom
Perignon gave his name to sparkling wine, but I prefer to believe
the romance of the French story.
If it is a myth, it's a powerful one and there's no doubt that
the French are firmly in control of the brand today. As with our own
Arbroath smokies, sparkling wine cannot be labelled champagne unless
it is from ...