This wine is known as a wine of Hollywood. Almost from the beginning of the Oscar Award ceremony is accompanied by these celebrations.

It was a drink of Marilyn Monroe , and she has repeatedly imprinted foktokameroy with a glass of champagne in hand. And it often was champagne – Piper-Heidsieck.

In 1965, Piper-Heidsieck has created very large bottle Champagne in the world – 1 m 82 cm, which corresponds to the growth of American actor Rex Harrison. The bottle was designed to celebrate the receipt of Harrison Oscar for her role in “My Fair Lady” where he played with Audrey Hepburn. Giant bottle contained a volume of 64 regular bottles with superb vintage champagne Piper-Heidsieck Brut harvest of 1959.
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The whole world knows this brand for its most famous wine – Crystal Louis Roederer. “A luxurious wine,” “stunning quality – uses such epithets at him , Robert Parker . And certainly the most prestigious in Russia and most expensive of sparkling wines in general. “King’s drink” – it was first produced in 1876 specifically for Alexander II. Prior to the revolution home, Louis Roderer was the official supplier of wine to the court of the Russian Emperor. More than 60% of its products distributed in the Russian Empire. Its name – Cristal was because delivered in a specially made by order of Alexander II of crystal bottles .
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This label is in the form of a “shield” is known throughout the world. Moet & Chandon produces an exclusive vintage champagne since 1936.

Named after the famous brand in the wine industry personalities – the Benedictine monk Pierre Perignon Who lived in the 17 century. Home – an appeal to the spiritual person in France. Attributed to him (the French, the British think differently) the glory of the invention of sparkling foam drink – until it no thought of as the usual ferment the wine to turn into a wonderful new drink. He probably was not absolutely the first, but certainly was at the forefront of production technology of champagne, which in general is inherited, and our contemporaries.
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This black with gold border ribbon fastened with a red circular seal under the bottle neck, everyone knows. It was coined in 1886, and has since remained unchanged recognizable detail design of branded products Moet & Chandon.

For the past 250 years, the company produces one of the most famous and prestigious brands of champagne. From the beginning, home Moet & Chandon is one of the main suppliers of official royal courts. At the time of his wine was delivered to Louis XV, and Napoleon Bonopart himself called at the estate when they are in Champagne.
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Women – go ahead. The most famous in the world of “female” brand of champagne – Veuve Clicquot. In the early 19 century, the heroic 27-year-old Veuve Clicquot , Nee Barbe Nicole Ponsarden, had inherited from her husband’s winery average hand – and raised it to unprecedented heights. She filled his remarkable product 18 km underground, having bought them from the city and turning it into a wine cellar. She is the author of the cleaning method of champagne to the crystal clear, which is still used by all winemakers in the world.
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Can you name without thinking about a dozen of the most famous brands of champagne? What kind of champagne they drank Russian emperors in the period between the victory over Napoleon and the loss of the throne? In favor of champagne James Bond refused vodka martini? Whose face – Claudia Schiffer and Scarlett Johansson – beautiful as a “person of champagne at home”? Dom Perignon – is, in fact, a person or a building? It is time to understand!
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BEAUTIFUL REGION

• A few miles south of Epernay, Cramant is the first village of the quartet prestigious Côte des Blancs: Cramant – Avize – Oger – Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. It is certainly one of the finest terroirs of Champagne, with its chalky slopes facing east, often topped by a small forest, which plays a thermoregulatory role. Here is the realm of vintage Champagne Blanc de Blancs, Chardonnay which shows one of its finest expressions.
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A Taste of Champagne is a small booklet of 80 pages of text that offers a first approach of champagne, to better understand and appreciate.

Francis Martin discusses successively the methods of preparation, types of champagne, the geographical boundaries, tasting (with a list of flavors), counseling service, the major types of houses and brand of champagne. A glossary provided fairly closed this little book with the acronyms houses (RM, NM … etc.)
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Appellation d’Origine – Appellation.
The Champagne is the northernmost and one of the most important wine regions of France, because it produces the sparkling wine of the same name (white or pink), prepared by the traditional method in the region.

This town is situated about 200 km from Paris, are 34,000 hectares, of which 31 000 are cultivated. The wines must comply with conditions laid down for entitlement to designation of origin, such as:

• come from grapes of the varieties Pinot noir, pinot meunier and chardonnay,
• make its second fermentation (using the methode Champenoise), ie the foam has to occur within the same bottle in the second fermentation.

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