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Climate Change Affecting Champagne ‘Taste’ Could Mean That Sparkling Wines Could Taste More Like The Taste We Want.

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by Anura Guruge
on August 9, 2022

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I see opportunity.

Yes, yes, yes, I get that ‘Champagne‘, these days’ can ONLY be used with champagne produced in France’s historic champagne region. I get that. I know that.

I also remember when sparkling wines from other countries used to be called champagne.

IF what you are after is the TASTE, TEXTURE & FEEL, rather than the name — & the cachet that goes with it — THEN it is possible that CLIMATE CHANGE is making some sparkling wines, say from the U.S., taste more like what you are after.

Think about it.

Name or Taste?

That has become the question.

Russia Tries, Brazenly, To Appropriate & Redefine ‘Champagne’ — To France’s Horror.

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by Anura Guruge
on July 6, 2021

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This is kind of funny — but scary & sad at the same time. They can only do this WITHIN Russia for (quite literally) their own consumption. It doesn’t hold water anywhere else. But, it is brazen. Russia & China, of late, are really stepping up their efforts to annoy & aggravate the West — & that is beyond all these ransomware attacks from Russia.

Within Russia they used to rewrite history. I visited Russia, for 2-weeks, in 1970 on a school trip! [Yes, it was a v. progressive British (private) boarding school, viz. ‘Mill Hill‘.] Went to a museum with this HUGE map of the world as a mural along one wall. It had all these dates & names in Russian. We asked our guides what they said. We were told that those referred to when Soviets ‘conquered’ those spots. So, according to this map, Soviets were the first to ‘conquer’ the two poles & Everest. It was funny. This is another attempt.

Some of you remember that France managed to get a ruling that only sparkling wine from the ‘Champagne’ region of France can be called that. Russia is trying to turn that on its head.