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November 16, 2018

Distance (in miles) between the sparkling wine vineyards of southern England and those in Champagne. The two places share nearly identical chalky soils laid down before the English Channel formed. As a result, England is now the newest hotspot for fine fizz. Within the next three years, the English sparkling industry is projected to be worth $36 million.

Know Your Grapes: Gruner Veltliner

“He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods that should be carried under the nose, snuffed and then thrown to the dogs … endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.

— Vile Bodies (1930) by Evelyn Waugh, as quoted by Charles Spence in Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

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