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	Champagne (region) - MSN Encarta
		Champagne (region), region of northeastern France, including the departments of Marne, Haute-Marne, Aube, and Ardennes and parts of Yonne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, and Meuse.
		A former province, Champagne consists mainly of an arid, chalk plateau and is best known as the home of the sparkling white wine named after the region.
		In 1314 Champagne became a province of the royal domain of France when the count of Champagne, who had inherited the area, succeeded as Louis X, king of France.
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	Champagne - Background, Raw Materials, The Manufacturing, Quality Control
		The Champagne province, which stretches from Flanders on the north to Burgundy in the south; from Lorraine in the east to Ile de France in the west, is one of the northern-most wine producing regions.
		In France, where the finest champagne is produced, the Institute National des Appelations d'Origin also places strict standards on the quality of soil that may be used for the growing of Champagne grapes.
		Some of the larger champagne houses have replaced the traditional round wooden press with a horizontal model inside of which a rubber bag inflates and gently presses the grapes against the sides of the press.
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	Champagne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Champagne, which the French say is "like the laugh of a pretty girl," and "the barometer of happiness," has been associated with love and gaiety since it was first invented.
		Champagne is strictly only sparkling wine produced from grapes grown in the ancient French province of Champagne as defined by French law; it must be fermented in the bottle, not in high pressure tanks, and varies from brut, the driest, to doux champagnes with up to 407o sugar content.
		It makes no difference what size bottle your champagne comes in (claret, burgundy and port are usually fuller bodied in large bottles), and champagne is ideally served at 43 to 46 degrees F (though the French don't hesitate to drop a few ice cubes in their glasses on a hot day).
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	Champagne, region and former province, France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Abutting in the west on the Paris basin, Champagne is a generally arid, chalky plateau, cut by the Aisne, Marne, Seine, Aube, and Yonne rivers.
		In the center is the Champagne Pouilleuse [Champagne badlands], a bleak and eroded plain, traditionally used for sheep grazing; however, Troyes and Châlons-en-Champagne, its principal towns, are located in fertile valleys and are centers of the wool industry.
		Champagne declined in prosperity thereafter; however, the enduring popularity of its sparkling wine, which was developed at the end of the 17th cent., somewhat revitalized its economy.
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	Kobrand Coropration - Champagne Facts
		In the Middle Ages a political province of France, the viticultural region of Champagne is today centered in the department of the Marne, with considerable acreage extending into the Aube, the Aisne, and the Seine-et-Marne, four of the eight departments into which the original province of Champagne was divided following the French Revolution.
		Champagne is a region of timeless natural beauty whose verdant countryside was known as "Campania," from the Latin, "campus," meaning "field," at the time of Christ; the old French became "Champaign," and later, Champagne.
		When the phylloxera louse struck, Champagne was more fortunate than Europe's other viticultural regions, as the cold climate impeded the spread of the pest, enabling the Champenois to benefit from the eventual remedy of grafting to American rootstocks before devastation of their vineyards was complete.
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	Champagne (Traditional province, France) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Champagne was then inhabited by the Belgians, who established there several tribes, whose names were later used to name cities: Senones (with capital city Sens), Tricasses (Troyes), Meldi (Meaux), Remes (Reims), Catalauni (Châlons) and Lingones (Langres).
		The Regiment of Champagne, founded by Henri II in 1558, was one of the four oldest regiments under the Ancient Regime.
		The city of Troyes, the capital city of Champagne, takes its name from the ancient Greek city of Troy, whose inhabitants fled after it was sacked in the war over Helen of Troy (long believed to have been the stuff of legend, but now known to have been a historical event).
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	champagne - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		The best champagne is from that part of the Marne valley whose apex is Reims, the center of the industry.
		Champagne was reputedly developed by a monk, Dom Pérignon, in the 17th cent.
		After the first fermentation the wine is blended; it undergoes a secondary fermentation, then is drawn off into bottles reinforced to withstand high internal pressure, and is sweetened to induce further fermentation.
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	Wiley::Champagne For Dummies
		Champagne may be the most misunderstood category of wine in the world.
		The major reason for all the confusion is the use of the term “Champagne” appearing on labels of sparkling wines that come from places other than the province of Champagne in northeastern France.
		But true champagne can only be born in an environment that combines the essential elements of chalky soil, a cool climate, and the Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier grape varieties.
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	Champagne Ardennes France regional information for travelers, walking tourists.
		By the 10th century, the duchy of Champagne became a hereditary estate known as the county of Champagne.
		Champagne consists mainly of a chalk plateau and is best known as the home of the sparkling white wine: the Champagne.
		The Champagne region is also known for the raising of sheep and the manufacture of wool being part of the economy.
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	All About French Champagne: An excerpt from An Encyclopedia of the Wines and Domaines of France
		The name is derived from the Latin campania, meaning plain, and the region is one of the historic provinces of France, bounded by Belgium and Luxembourg on the north, Lorraine on the east, Burgundy to the south and Picardy and the Ile de France to the west.
		Champagne can be sold with or without a vintage date, though if it is to have a vintage date 100 percent of the blend needs to come from that vintage.
		One of Champagne's best-loved characters was Lily Bollinger, the wife of Jacques' grandson who ran Bollinger from the death of her husband in 1941 until her own death at the age of seventy-eight in 1977.
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	Province of Champagne, France
		The Falaise de l'Ile-de-France, a limestone ridge, borders Champagne on the west, separating it from the Ile-de-France, core of the Paris Basin.
		To its east are the fertile cornfields, pastures, and orchards of the clay vale of Champagne Humide ("wet Champagne").
		The region's mean annual temperature ranges from 10 deg to 15 deg C (50 deg to 60 deg F), and rainfall ranges from 510 to 1,020 mm (20 to 40 in).
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	When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity Journal of Social History - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Champagne is an excellent example of the mysterious ways in which humans define themselves through their consumption and use food and drink to give meaning to social events.
		With the industry's enormous marketing success the name of champagne had dramatically multiplied the value of these wines, and the province of Champagne insisted on its sole right to this name and to the value of its prestige.
		By the turn of the century, growers were finding that many of the department's manufacturers were producing "champagne" from grapes that had grown elsewhere and that the prices for their own grapes were suffering as a consequence.
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	World of Annique: France 2006 - Epernay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Reims is in the heart of the region Champagne and yes, this is the place where the grapes grow and ripen and become the famous champagne we all love so very much.
		Being the capital of Champagne province, the city of Reims is full with Champagne wineries.
		Aside from champagne as the world knows it, there is an excellent blanc de blanc champagne nature, an unbubbly white wine with a slight bite and many of the characteristics of champagne.
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	Wine Wise - Sparkling Wines
		The discovery of Champagne is credited to Dom Pérignon, cellarmaster at the Abbey of Hautvillers in the Champagne province of France.
		The Champagnes are made with infinite care, each bottle having personal attention year after year and being handled about zoo times before it is ready for the market.
		The quality of these Champagnes is attested by the fact that they have taken a "grand prix" and other high awards in expositions abroad in competition with the best Champagnes of Europe.
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	Champagne Ardennes France,Introduction the French Region of Champagne Ardennes
		Champagne styles include pink, (from white grapes to which a red wine is added for color prior to bottling), Blanc de Blancs (from the Chardonnay grape), Blank de Noirs (from Pinot Noir or Pinot-Meunier).
		Non-vintage champagne is not made from grapes of the same vintage or year.
		Champagne’s soil is mainly chalk, and the region’s topography is principally that of a plateau.
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	Tiny Bubbles, Big Profits: No longer reserved for special occasions, champagne can be served in splits or mixed into ...
		He believes that the surge in everyday enjoyment of champagne is due in fact to a renewed interest in champagne cocktails.
		The timeless mimosa (champagne mixed with orange juice) heads a list that includes champagne cocktails (champagne with bitters and sugar), kir royale (champagne with chambord and a lemon twist) and bellinis (champagne and peach schnapps).
		Most certainly, it will be the wine lovers who bypass the trendy straws and the sparkling cocktails to opt for champagne in its classic form—served in a slender flute, bubbles rising eternally from a secret place at the bottom of the glass.
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	The Wine Labels World - Champagne
		Chalk characterizes much of La Champagne, the large province in eastern France that stretches from Reims towards Burgundy in the south, and up to the Belgian border in the north.
		From La Champagne comes le champagne, champagne wine, but from a small part of the department only.
		Champagne's cool climate also plays a vital part in the success of its vines.
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	RTE.ie Entertainment - Plonk: Champagne
		The province of Champagne is in northeastern France, which lies just 100 miles east of Paris.
		Most Champagne related activity centres on the towns of Reims and Epernay, where most of the champagne houses are based.
		They had been excluded from Champagne by government decree in 1908 after protests by growers from the Marne region who considered the Aube grapes to be inferior.
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	Champagne 101 - Allrecipes
		All Champagnes are made from grapes grown in France's northeastern region, the Champagne province.
		Most Champagnes are non-vintage: that is, they are made from a blend of grapes from different years, aged in the bottle for 18 months.
		Vintage Champagne is made with high-quality grapes from the same year; they must be aged three years before they are released.
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	Champagne (province) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		La Champagne est une ancienne province française - à l'origine un comté - qui fait maintenant partie de la région administrative Champagne-Ardenne.
		Au Moyen-Âge, cette province acquit une forte renommée en Europe occidentale avec le succès des nombreuses foires qui se tenaient dans ses villes.
		Cependant la Champagne garda son autonomie jusqu'à sa mort en 1314 et c'est son fils Louis X le Hutin qui la rattacha définitivement à la France.
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	AllRefer.com - champagne, sparkling white wine (Alcoholic Beverages) - Encyclopedia
		Champagne was reputedly developed by a monk, Dom PErignon, in the 17th cent.
		It is a mixture of fl Pinot Noir and white Chardonnay grapes and is named for the vintners and shippers responsible for each blend.
		An American sparkling wine called champagne is made in New York and California.
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	Champagne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Champagne (province) - a region in France, ruled in the past by the Counts of Champagne
		Champagne is the name or part of the name of several communes: In France:
		In Switzerland: Champagne, Switzerland Although spelled differently, Champaign is the name of the city of Champaign and of Champaign County in Illinois.
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	Vino! Wine Guide \| Champagne Explained \| French Champagne Wine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Champagne province made still wines until the 18th century, when Dom Perignon revolutionized the process to produce the present-day sparkling wine known as Champagne (a little production of red, white and rose non-sparkling wines is still made).
		The Champagne region is part of the A.O.C. system, yet sometimes it is not mentioned on the bottle.
		While Champagne is sometimes sold in larger containers like magnums (equivalent to two bottles), jeroboams (four bottles), or even balthazars (sixteen bottles), and the biggest mabuchodonosor (twenty bottles), it is best in the single bottle or magnum.
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	Beland Coat of Arms
		Formerly known as Armorica, a possession of the Roman Empire, this land consists of a plateau with a deeply indented coastline, and is broken by hills in the west.
		Languedoc as a region included the southeastern portion of the Massif Central, a plateau in the south of France, and ran from the province of Roussillon, in the west, to the Rhône River, forming the border with Provence, in the east.
		Champagne is a former province of France, located in the northeast part of the country on the west bank of the River Meuse.
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	Underground Wine Journal on klwines.com
		The small artisanal Champagne producer is handcrafting wines that sparkle with all the nuances we came to expect from name brands when their quality line was still their bottom line.
		While it is difficult to choose which handcrafted Champagne producers to discuss here among hundreds equally deserving, I want to show you a little of the diversity of the whole Champagne province.
		The glass that makes up a champagne bottle is four times as thick as the glass on a normal bottle of wine in order for it to withstand the pressure of 85 pounds per square inch that it must during the second fermentation.
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	Schlock Mercenary archives - Sunday, January 8, 2006
		After all, "champagne" was originally named for a French province.
		They decided that it should be illegal to call anything "champagne" unless it a) was created in that province, and b) met high standards for pinkness, bubbliness, and whatever else it is that makes champagne champagne.
		Entrepreneurial colonists on Celeschul imported large quantities of soil and associated biomass from the champagne province in an effort to circumvent a loophole in the gordian knot of 23rd-century trademark laws.
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	Epiculinary Culinary Tours - Champagne and Stars, L'Epine, Champagne
		The province of Champagne is mostly known for, well, its Champagne.
		Interestingly, the region’s cuisine has traditionally been rustic and hearty; a stark contrast to the elegance and sophistication of Le Champagne, the wine.
		Some of the dishes that might be prepared include foie gras de canard poele au sesame, jus de betterave acidule (duck foie gras cooked with sesame and beet sauce); pave de bar en peau croustillante aux champignon des bois (white fish grilled with its own skin with wood mushrooms); fromages regionaux.
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	Boston.com / Latest News / Business
		Their sparkling wines may not be identical to French champagnes, but connoisseurs detect increasing similarities.
		Champagne is best shown and appreciated in tulip-shaped glasses such as those in this photograph, or in narrow flutes.
		French law dictates that effervescent wine made outside the Champagne region is properly referred to as sparkling wine.
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	Wine Class
		Most people use the term champagne to refer to any sparkling wine, but, originally, this word referred only to sparkling wines produced in the Champagne province of France.
		Real champagne is fermented in the bottle under carefully controlled conditions, a process known as the methode champenoise.
		Most American champagne is made by adding carbonated water and sugar to already produced red and white wine.
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