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Home > Blogs > Uncorked > Archives > 2008 > December > 18 > Entry

The mysterious connection between women and Champagne

By Mark Fisher | Thursday, December 18, 2008, 11:10 AM

The best wine read on the web this week is entitled “How Women Transformed Champagne”, written by Michael Apstein for Wine Review Online.

The story chronicles how women have played a pivotal role in the formulation and development of Champagne over the last two centuries — and in a wine business and culture that is unabashedly chauvinistic if not downright sexist.

Champagne owes it all to women. Who knew?

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