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Champagne Updated: Celebrating a Sustainable Region

Becky Sue Epstein
Features
3 min read
CHAMPAGNE IN HISTORY For centuries, Champagne producers were focused on one thing: inspiring us to drink Champagne. Then they were forced to change. A few decades ago, the world shifted, and instead of being concerned about their one little corner of the earth, Champagne producers became aware that every aspect

2013 Rotari Brut Trento DOC Blanc de Blancs

Becky Sue Epstein
Wine Reviews
1 min read
A delicate yet substantial sparkling wine. After the first fermentation, this wine is finished in the bottle, as they do in Champagne. The wine is also made with chardonnay grapes only, as is Champagne’s “blanc de blancs.” But this sparkler is produced in the north of Italy, in the Dolomites;
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California’s Champagne Affair

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
7 min read
Can California wineries make Champagne? Of course they can! Over the past three years, at least four California wineries have started doing so. Before I get sabered by a regiment of WSET candidates for dealing in alternative facts, let me hasten to add that these Californians are making their signature