![]() ![]() The Kladstrups divide their time between Paris and Normandy. Petie, an Overseas Press Club winner, was a newspaper journalist and more recently protocol officer for the U.S. Champagne : How the Worlds Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard. ![]() Don, a winner of three Emmys and numerous other awards, was a foreign correspondent for ABC and CBS television news. Champagne by Don Kladstrup, 9780060737931, available at Book Depository with. The book celebrates the gutsy, larger-than-life characters whose proud determination nurtured and preserved the land and its grapes throughout centuries of conflict.ĭon and Petie Kladstrup are former journalists who have written extensively about wine and France for numerous publications. ![]() It tells how a sparkling beverage that became the toast of society during the Belle Epoque emerged after World War I as a global icon of fine taste and good living. Yet this region - which historians say has suffered more battles and wars than any other place on earth - is also the birthplace of one thing the entire world equates with good times, friendship and celebration: champagne.Ĭhampagne is the story of the world's favourite wine. Throughout history, waves of invaders have coveted the northeast corner of France: Attila the Hun in the fifth century, the English in the Hundred Years War, the Prussians in the nineteenth century. ![]()
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