Champagne Growing Regions

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Gary Westby from K&L Wine Merchants. And we're going to talk about the region of Champagne. Champagne is a region about a hundred kilometers to the north and east of Paris. The two main towns there are Reims and Epernay. If you were to draw a line from Epernay to North America, it would hit it Fargo, North Dakota. If you were to draw a line from Reims to North America, you'd see it hit Winnipeg, Canada. This is the absolute border line for cold, continental weather. In the world where fine wine can be grown. And as such, it has a very special set of climatic conditions that allow for the production of the most elegant sparkling wine, on the planet. It also has extraordinarily chalky soil that was left behind. When this whole are used to be the bottom of the ocean about three hundred million years ago. This chalk in combination with the bad weather. And an extraordinary number of regulations. Allow them to make superlative sparkling wine."