A VISIT to THE WIZARDS OF FIZZ

"You can never get drunk on champagne," they told us when I first visited Champagne. Yeah, right!

“French men,” they also told me, “like champagne because it puts a sparkle in the ladies' eyes and gently flushes their cheeks.” No wonder someone once dubbed this 'the wine that makes you see double, and act single'. 

Beauty and morality issues aside, most people simply go for the delicate flavour, the rush of bubbles, the extravagance of sipping real French champagne. For a sparkling wine can only be called champagne if it is produced in the Champagne region of France, less than 150 kilometres from Paris, almost due east along the motorway, and a swift hour or so if you travel with a lead-foot driver as I did recently.

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This article continues with details of champagne – the region and the drink.and  includes information on accommodation provided, local food and cuisine, things to do and see.

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Champagne -  both a drink and destination. Something to spoil yourself with, and a place that spellbinds you; a signal for celebration as well as a romantic region of France. Whichever way you look at it, Champagne – the place or the product ­– has much to recommend it. 

©Sally Hammond 2006

Picture Credits: ©Gordon Hammond 2006 

(*Sally Hammond travelled to France courtesy of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in association with Malaysia Airlines, and stayed as a guest of the French Government Tourist Office and Champagne Ardenne Tourism)

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