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Default Can Sparkling Wine From The U.S. Be Called Champagne?

"Mike Tommasi" > wrote in message
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> PK wrote:
>> some time ago (sorry I have not got a reference, but my source was a
>> senior WSET tutor) a "champagne" tasting in Paris was carried out in two
>> stages:
>>
>> 1. all wines blind - a particular wine came top
>>
>>
>> 2. all wines "open" - the same wine came bottom
>>
>> the wine in question:
>>
>> Nyetimber, produced in West Sussex, England
>> http://www.nyetimber.com/

>
> If it's from England, it's probably terrible.



most are but Nyetimber is up there with the best champagnes -

pk