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Article: `THE NIGHT THEY INVENTED CHAMPAGNE' // New Year's Eve in Chicago glitters with the shimmer and tingle of sparkling wine
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 24, 1997
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Chicagoans may have a beer-drinker reputation, but we have
Champagne tastes.
Even people in the nation's cradle of winemaking - California -
don't drink as much bubbly as we do.
Illinoisans drank 0.28 gallons of sparkling wine per person in
1995 - the equivalent of 2 1/2 bottles for each adult in the state,
according to data compiled by Steve Barsby & Associates and reported
this year by Smart Wine magazine. That's 25 percent more than
second-place California and twice as much as New York.
The United States is now the world's biggest market for
Champagne, according to France's Comite Interprofessionnel des Vins
de Champagne, a wine industry trade group. And Champagne Krug, which
many ...