Good Morning everyone
astra, I liked the answer of Chah but for this :
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Imagine 9 out of 10 customers call a sparkling Californian white wine a “champagne”. In order to successfully sell your sparkling wine, you would have to call it champagne too, knowing it wasn’t totally accurate
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"it wasn't totally acurate" is not it. In the UK, "illegal" would be it. I don't know much about a lot of things, but I know about wines and champagne. A crémant stays a crémant, it may or may not taste the same sometimes as champagne, but it still not is, and is not allowed to be called so. The name "champagne" is originated from the region where the champagne is produced, which is called The Champagne (as The Normandie and so on) and is an AOC (Appellation d'Origine Controlée). Everywhere in the world you are not allowed to use it if the wine has not been produced first with the methode champenoise and second in the Champagne Region. The US are the exception, it is tolerated but only for local use (sales of wine produced in the US and sold and consumed in the US), under the condition that the place of production is indicated immediately after the name of the wine. Under these restrictions, many californian producers have decided to stop calling their wine champagne and will stick to either "methode champenoise" or just "sparkling wine".
I wish they would the same for cheese, because sincerely the "camemberts" I have had to taste outside of France were in 99% of the case no camemberts at all.
Back to Champagne: If you want that in your cup (which is abso-F-lutely deliciously decadent in the morning, but oh so nice), and want to be sure to impress the lady with your remarkable choice, get a Veuve Cliquot. Expensive, but available everywhere and never, never disappointing. And to be sure, make it a jeroboam (3l) and keep it coming
Café con leche it is for me this morning, without camembert
. I will go swimming (I think any physical activity should count. some are easier to measure than others
), and then I am allowed to eat (personal rule, or I will never move my behind).