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The History of Champagne

The first wines from Champagne were still wines, an effort to emulate the great wines of Burgundy. Charles Heitzich founded a great champagne house in the 1850s and tried to get it into the U.S. "It was important to put a human face on the product that he was trying to sell," says David Perry.

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