Champagne is sparking wine produced by a traditional method named for the Champagne region of France.
True "Champagne" only comes from this region near Reims, Epernay and Ayers in northeastern France, and accounts for 20 percent of all French wine and spirits production.
The word is derived from the Latin campagna, meaning countryside, a name for this area of France since the Middle Ages. Although other French wine-producing regions claim to have made sparkling wine earlier, this area was the first place to produce it in significant quantities.
What makes champagne unique is that it's made by a process called the "methode champenoise," and requires that a second fermentation be done in the bottle, the one that you take home from the store. The natural by-product of yeast working on grape sugars is carbon dioxide, which stays in the wine since it can't escape from the tight enclosure.
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