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  • Champagne is a type of sparkling wine that is either marked with a vintage or nonvintage label. Vintage bottles of champagne refer to aged champagne produced from a single-harvest year. To be…

  • Champagne comes from the Champagne region of France. It is fermented twice to produce pressure and fizz. Champagne is aged anywhere from a year and a half to more than 10 years. It is usually ready to…

  • "Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right," opined the late, great American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many would tend to agree with Fitzgerald, and fortunately this New…

  • True champagne can only come from the Champagne region of France. Everything else is just sparkling wine masquerading as champagne. Choose pink champagne for something different for your next dinner…

  • Vintage does not always mean old. A declared vintage for champagne means that it was a great production year for the vineyard. Many excellent vintage champagnes exist, but the trick is knowing the…

  • If you have ever been "sold up" on a bottle of Champagne by a snooty sales clerk, you could use a primer in what type of bubbly is (and isn't) appropriate to bring to a New Year's shindig.…