Champagne may have its heart in France, but its brains are British, its strength American and its origins Roman, writes DrAmandaForeman
Historian Amanda Foreman searches the past for the origins of today’s world. Read previous columnsFrench wine producers have fought hard to protect the name of champagne.
Since 1891, under the terms of the international Treaty of Madrid, only sparkling wines made in the eponymous region can be called champagne, as though the rest are impostors. But as corks go a-popping and glasses a-clinking this holiday season, we should remember the unsung, non-Gallic heroes who helped make it all possible.
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