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or there's--they're all over the places--produced in Alsace.
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But champagne, Champagne is basically this region here,
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and that becomes not only part of the identity of Champagne,
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which is a region, but with French national identity.
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And there's a book on how that happened,
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how Champagne becomes to become seen as a drink
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that you really celebrate, for big birthdays.
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We have a friend who just hit eighty and we left him
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--before we went we left him a bottle of really good champagne,
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because that's something they couldn't possibly afford;
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and the symbolism is really there.
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But Bordeaux, Bordeaux wines profit enormously from