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    CHAMPAGNE’S ROLLER COASTER RIDE

    Sep 02, 2018 4 minutes
    WORDS CLIVE HARTLEY

    CHAMPAGNE is undoubtedly the world’s best wine story. No other region can claim to have been embroiled in world events or to have developed intricate technology over countless decades to perfect a wine from grapes that grow in the most demanding conditions. It is also a wine that is so closely married to its terroir that no other country can replicate it.

    Patrick Forbes’ 1967 seminal work on the region makes the point that champagne is an art not a science. He pays due testament to the artistic skills of the winemaker, yet he goes on to say that the most

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