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Dec 2022
50m 23s

Champagne Wishes: The Tastes of Celebrat...

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
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We pop it at weddings and pour it for the holidays, gift it to congratulate and sip it to celebrate—but, if we're being honest, Gastropod will seize any occasion to drink champagne. In the second episode of our two-part miniseries on the tastes of celebration, we tell the story of how this sparkling wine went from an unwelcome accident—winemakers considered ... Show More
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