Sparkling wine produced from Champagne region in France. Also carbonated wine.
The sparkling wine known since the seventeenth century as champagne takes its name from Champagne, the region in northeast France where it is produced. In turn, the name of the French region arose as a borrowing of Campania, an Italian province whose name derives from the Latin campus, meaning field. In addition to champagne, the Latin campus is also the direct source of the English campus (the field where a university is located) and of camp (originally a field where soldiers stopped for the night); via French, the Latin campus also gave rise to the word champion (a person who emerges victorious from a field of battle), to the word campaign (originally a plan of attack intended for the battlefield, but later adopted by politicians), and to the word scamper (the s of scamper is a vestige of the Latin prefix ex, meaning out of, the word originally having denoted a cowardly retreat from the battlefield). The Latin campus also evolved into words in other languages, including the German kampf (meaning battlefield struggle, familiar around the world thanks to Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf) and the French champignon (meaning field mushroom). Similarly, champagne has also spawned words in other languages: in Japanese the wine is called shampen and in Russian it is shampanskoye.
X is a lively white wine originating from a region in the northeastern part of France, which is made using a fermentation process that takes place inside the bottle. It is also known as champagne and is often served chilled in an ice bucket. While other sparkling wines may share the same name, they are not authentic champagnes. This type of wine is customary to drink during celebratory toasts.
Champagne is a sparkling wine produced from grapes grown within the borders of the ancient French province of Champagne. The wines sourced from various vineyards in the area share a similar character but differ in style. Thus, blending is crucial to creating a harmonious final product, as it merges the unique qualities of individual wines into a cohesive whole. Secondly, the quantity of wine produced annually from each vineyard is quite limited, leading to shippers blending wines from numerous vineyards to obtain enough champagne with consistent style to meet the needs of their consumers.