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Default Belgium destroys California "champagne"

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:10:37 -0500, "Richard Neidich"
> wrote:

>Meanwhile, the method to produce Champaigne can be done by anyone. The
>process does not hold a Patent. And anyone can state that this is a
>Champaigne Method.


Not so.

I don't know to what extent the restictions have spread, but certainly
in the EU the term "Champagne Method" is no longer allowed. People
now use "Traditional Method", or a foreign language variant, instead.

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