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Old 26-03-2008, 03:57 PM posted to alt.food.wine
DaleW
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Default Can Sparkling Wine From The U.S. Be Called Champagne?

On Mar 26, 12:08�pm, Mark Lipton wrote:
st.helier wrote:
Nope - sorry - again, no choice - Chardonnay for white; Pinot noir for
ed �- �thus (unlike Bordeaux) no blending of varieties.


err... Bourgogne Passetoutgrains? �;-)

Mark Lipton

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and Bourgogne Grande Ordinaire!
But PTG and BGO together make up something like 2% of production, and
way less than 1% of exports.
Personally, even when I was brand new to wine, I didn't find European
labeling confusing. And no one has ever suggested that US wines had to
switch to European styled geographic labeling, to my knowledge.
 

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