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Monday, June 2, 2014

French Wines: Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne - Beginner's Guide

FRANCE & French Wines
  Three very popular wines from France are Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy.

Champagne
Napoleon said 'In victory you deserve it; in defeat you need it'.
I first discovered this quotation when researching an article on Champagne cellar visits for Take A Break magazine. I now have several quotations on wines in my book Quick Quotations, and I am researching another book on quotations. Now back to some facts on champagne.

Champagne is a sparkling wine from the region of Champagne in the north of France. The area is not far from Paris and is one of the nearest wine regions to the ports in Northern France and the ports in Southern England. The Champagne growers chief market was originally Britain. Famous Champagne houses include Moet et Chandon. Famous ladies in the old days were Veuve Cliquot and Madame Lilly Bollinger.

You can take tours around the champagne houses of Rheims and Epernay.

Bordeaux
  Bordeaux is the region on the border of the water (French for water is eau, the water l'eau, of the water, d'eau, of the waters d'eaux x being plural).
SW coast.
For easy to read information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordeaux

Burgundy
East.
  Burgundy - dark red, wine colour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy_wine

Follow the links and you will find more links to
http://www.france.fr/en/art-and-culture/quiz-great-french-authors-and-their-masterpieces.html

 I have other posts on wines, wine cellar tours, port and sherry.
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Talks on wine tasting by Angela at toastmasters International. Angela Lansbury is Past President of Harrovians Toastmasters Speakers Club in London, past and present committee member of HOD Toastmasters Speakers Club in London, and past member of several clubs in Singapore, and visitor to clubs in China and Thailand.)

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