PENMART01 wrote:

>
> And no other sparkling wine is the same (technically or otherwise) as
> Champagne[period]

As mentioned in my other post, there are other wineries that make a Champagne
style sparkling wine. They are no longer allowed to call it Champagne because the
name is protected. They use chardonnay and pinot noir grapes and the secondary
fermentation process, just like the way it is done in the Champagne region of
France. A lot of people would be hard pressed to tell the difference between that
and the French stuff, the difference not being as blatant as some of the
carbonated white wines.