Ebook: Champagne: how war & hard times gave rise to the world's most glamorous wine
Author: Kladstrup Don, Kladstrup Petie
- Tags: Champagne (Wine)--History, Champagne (Wine), History, Champagne (Wine) -- History
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- City: New York;Enfield
- Language: English
- epub
Throughout history, waves of invaders have coveted the northeast corner of France: Attila the Hun in the fifth century, the English in the Hundred Years War, the Prussians in the nineteenth century. Yet this region -- which historians say has suffered more battles and wars than any other place on earth -- is also the birthplace of one thing the entire world equates with good times, friendship and celebration: champagne.
Champagne is the story of the world's favourite wine. It tells how a sparkling beverage that became the toast of society during the Belle Epoque emerged after World War I as a global icon of fine taste and good living. The book celebrates the gutsy, larger--than--life characters whose proud determination nurtured and preserved the land and its grapes throughout centuries of conflict.