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The champenois have been very clever in training us to think of a bottle of champagne as an event, not a drink.
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Morten Hallgren does, but he has yet to release a vintage since he is adhering strictly to the methode champenois and his bottles are aging in a climate controlled cellar as we speak.
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Old Fr. champeneis (champenois), of Champagne (Chapter XI).
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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"There is now only one get-out clause available to the champenois: to demonstrate transparently that all proposed new vineyards are superior to the average - (not lowest -) level vineyards currently classified.
Brad Haskel: Champagne: Dramatic Change in the Land of Tradition 2009
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“L’ascension sociale d’un aventurier champenois: Claude Turgis XVIe–XVIIe siècle.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“L’ascension sociale d’un aventurier champenois: Claude Turgis XVIe–XVIIe siècle.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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