Champagne is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation, that demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, specific grape-pressing methods and secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to cause carbonation. The grapes Pinot noir, Pinot meunier, and Chardonnay are used to produce almost all Champagne, but small amounts of Pinot blanc, Pinot gris (called Fromenteau in Champagne), Arbane, and Petit Meslier are vinified as well. Champagne became associated with royalty in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The leading manufacturers made efforts to associate their Champagnes with nobility and royalty through advertising and packaging, which led to its popularity among the emerging middle class. Origins

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Notable quotes

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Champagne by Giles Fallowfield, W. Craig Cooper. — Princeton Architectural Press, 2013 (or Mark Twain? Swallow This: The Progressive Approach to Wine by Mark Phillips. — Board and Bench Publishing, 2016)
“We had champagne … what was the governor's compared with it? — no better than cider. Just fancy, not Cliquot but a special Cliquot-Matradura which means double Cliquot.”
— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, 1835
“CHAMPAGNE. The sign of a grand dinner. Pretend to despise it, saying: 'It isn't really a wine.' Arouses the enthusiasm of the lower orders. Russia drinks more of it than France. The medium through which French ideas have been spread throughout Europe. During the Regency people did nothing but drink champagne. But one doesn't drink champagne: one 'sips' it.”
— Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas
“In those days we drank nothing but champagne — if we had no champagne we drank nothing at all. We never drank vodka, as they do now.”
— Leo Tolstoy, After the Dance, 1903 (translated by Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright)
“If you drink champagne in the morning, you must be an aristocrat... or a degenerate!”
— The Diamond Arm, 1969
“When a man says no to champagne, he says no to life.”
— The Deer Hunter, 1978

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Overview

Champagne is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation, that demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, specific grape-pressing methods and secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to cause carbonation. The grapes Pinot noir, Pinot meunier, and Chardonnay are used to produce almost all Champagne, but small amounts of Pinot blanc, Pinot gris (called Fromenteau in Champagne), Arbane, and Petit Meslier are vinified as well. Champagne became associated with royalty in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The leading manufacturers made efforts to associate their Champagnes with nobility and royalty through advertising and packaging, which led to its popularity among the emerging middle class. Origins

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Champagne is a sparkling wine originated and produced in the Champagne wine region of France under the rules of the appellation, that demand specific vineyard practices, sourcing of grapes exclusively from designated places within it, specific grape-pressing methods and secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to cause carbonation.

Notable quotes

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Champagne by Giles Fallowfield, W. Craig Cooper. — Princeton Architectural Press, 2013 (or Mark Twain? Swallow This: The Progressive Approach to Wine by Mark Phillips. — Board and Bench Publishing, 2016)
“We had champagne … what was the governor's compared with it? — no better than cider. Just fancy, not Cliquot but a special Cliquot-Matradura which means double Cliquot.”
— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, 1835
“CHAMPAGNE. The sign of a grand dinner. Pretend to despise it, saying: 'It isn't really a wine.' Arouses the enthusiasm of the lower orders. Russia drinks more of it than France. The medium through which French ideas have been spread throughout Europe. During the Regency people did nothing but drink champagne. But one doesn't drink champagne: one 'sips' it.”
— Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas
“In those days we drank nothing but champagne — if we had no champagne we drank nothing at all. We never drank vodka, as they do now.”
— Leo Tolstoy, After the Dance, 1903 (translated by Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright)
“If you drink champagne in the morning, you must be an aristocrat... or a degenerate!”
— The Diamond Arm, 1969
“When a man says no to champagne, he says no to life.”
— The Deer Hunter, 1978

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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