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Link : https://maburkanginan.blogspot.com/?good=1640123946 bA iNew York Times/i Best Wine Book of 2021/bChampagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth century and became famously known as Champagne Charlie. Ignoring critics who warned that America was a dangerous place to do business, Heidsieck plunged right in, considering it “the land of opportunity” and succeeding there beyond
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bA iNew York Times/i Best Wine Book of 2021/bChampagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth century and became famously known as Champagne Charlie. Ignoring critics who warned that America was a dangerous place to do business, Heidsieck plunged right in, considering it “the land of opportunity” and succeeding there beyond
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Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles
Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to
champagne in the mid-nineteenth century and became
famously known as Champagne Charlie. Ignoring critics who
warned that America was a dangerous place to do business,
Heidsieck plunged right in, considering it “thland of
opportunity”and succeeding there beyond his wildest
dreams. Those dreams, however, became a nightmare when
the Civil War erupted and he was imprisoned and nearly
executed after being charged with spying for the Confederacy.
Only after the Lincoln administration intervened was
Heidsieck’slife saved, but his champagne business had
gone bankrupt and was virtually dead. Then, miraculously,
Heidsieck became owner of nearly half the city of Denver, the
fastest-growing city in the West. By selling the land, Heidsieck
was eventually able to resurrect his business to its former
glory. For all its current-day glamour, effervescence, and
association with the high life, champagne had a lackluster
start. It was pale red in color, insipid in taste, and completely
flat. In fact, champagne-makers, including the legendary Dom
Périgon, fought strenuously to eliminate bubbles.
Champagne’ssuccess can be traced back to King Louis
XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon
Bonaparte, countless wars and prohibitions, and, most
important to the United States, Charles Heidsieck.Champagne