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ENGLISH SPARKLING

Sparkling wines (and ciders) have been produced in England since at least the early 1660s, as papers read to the Royal Society show – and this some years before Dom Pérignon took up his position as ‘cellarar’ at his abbey in France.

In the modern era, the first producer

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