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Champagne Consumer Fraud

January 10, 2013 | Filed under Worth A Look | Posted by

Champagne comes from the Champagne region of France.

Sparkling wine from anywhere else is sparkling wine, cava, vin mousseaux, etc.

To call a sparkling wine “Champagne,” if it comes from anywhere else but Champagne, is consumer fraud. It’s like labeling a wine “Napa Valley Select” when the wine comes from Moldova.

It may be technically legal in this country to label domestic sparkling wine as “Champagne,” but it’s still fraud. Somebody needs to grow up and join the rest of the world.

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  • Jeffry Martini

    Is Korbel Natural “Champagne” the only Sparkling wine the White House considered? Who chose that. What a disgrace….who ever wrote the “Champagne” Innaugural Wines Press Release should be “released” as well. This makes the White House Staff look like rubes at worst and ignorant dummies at best. I voted for Obama, so I am a fan….but he needs to do a complete overhaul on the people who choose his wines. BTW, didn’t Korbel’s honcho give mucho bucks to the Romney Campaign (???!!!!). They should have used the Wine Spectator’s highest rated U.S. Sparkling (method champenoise) wine, Gruet from New Mexico!