[Hillary = Stalin In Panties]

Hey Sam Adams -- I can suggest BETTER than boycotting French wine.....


WANNA PISS OFF FRANCE.......??


OUR Beverage = Sparkling Wine
THEIR Beverage = Champagne


BUT IT'S THE SAME STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO WHY CAN'T WE CALL OUR STUFF "CHAMPAGNE??"

HERE'S WHY:


In the USA, I'm told that ONLY French sparkling wine can be marketed as "Champagne," since it comes from that region in France.

Any sparkling wine produced in other regions of the world (such as California), CANNOT be sold here as "Champagne."

Those other sparkling wines are advertised and sold here as "sparkling wine."


NOW:


What if our government STOPS this unfair practice, rewrites its own law, and ALLOWS anybody meeting certain quality standards to market their sparkling wine as "Champagne?"

After all, that's exactly WHAT IT IS. "Champagne" has become the common term + catchall name for that category of beverage. But American companies have simply been prevented from calling their stuff Champagne for Lord knows how many years.

"Champagne" has become the common term for this sort of beverage, so why can't we Americans buy/sell OUR STUFF under that name? Why do the French get to sell us their Champagne, but we must sell our competing brands as dippy-sounding "sparkling wine?"


WHO enforces this USA "law," and HOW CAN WE CHANGE IT ??


LET'S OPEN THE FLOODGATES, AND FILL THE WORLD MARKETPLACE WITH DELIGHTFUL AMERICAN CHAMPAGNE!



VINEYARDS, GET ORGANIZED AND WAKE UP!!

NOW IS YOUR CHANCE. THE PLANET HATES FRANCE.

(And if you succeed, I'll settle for a case of your best stuff).

[Defiant]

Even better. Let's ship out all our sparkling wine through southern Illinois, and call it "Champaign"!

[Bonaparte]

"...so why can't we Americans buy/sell OUR STUFF under that name?"

A very good question. For the past 50 years or so, Miller beer has been advertised as "the champagne of bottled beers." If we can't call our sparkling wines "champagne," then maybe we should just forbid the French from using our words, such as "hot dog," "sandwich," "hamburger," "Coke," etc.

Pass the freedom fries, please.

[SamAdams76]

Not a bad idea. I usually buy a few bottle of champagne for the holidays (Christmas and New Year's) but I resolved to buy California sparkling wine for this coming holiday season. Frankly, I don't see what we can't call it champagne as well because as you say, it's pretty much the same stuff, only better. After all, we call our wine, wine and not "fermented grape juice" or something lame like that. Why should it be different for the bubbly?

BTW, great screen name.

[usmc_chris]

Flame away, but American sparkling wine is not champagne. The law of reality remains despite your wishes. Renaming American sparkling wine as champagne will not alter the fact that it is not, in fact, champagne. California sparkling wine is tasty, but it's just not the real stuff.

[Mamzelle]

re: WHO enforces this USA "law," and HOW CAN WE CHANGE IT ?? )))

You know, I'd like to know if this is a voluntary tradition our vintners follow, or an actual labelling regulation. I do know that it frosts the frogs when we call our wines what we please to call them...would be very interesting to know where this "regulation," or whatever it is, originates