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Number of bottles of Champagne to be given away to visitors spending at least 2 nights in the celebrated French wine region this summer. The brainchild of the Reims Tourism Office, the promotion requires travelers to stay in a local hotel or guesthouse, dine in a neighborhood restaurant, and pay for one leisure activity to receive their prize. That way the holiday can continue all the way home!

Parts of California wine country are constantly moving northwestward.

Answer: True.

The San Andreas Fault, a sliding boundary between two tectonic plates, extends more than 700 miles from Mexico up through western California, running offshore near the northern California town of Eureka. The plates are constantly in motion—causing parts of California wine country to move very slowly northward at a rate of a couple of inches per year—about the same rate that fingernails grow. The continual rubbing of the Pacific Plate to the west and the North American Plate to the east are responsible for some 10,000 (mostly minor) earthquakes a year. Several California wine valleys lie directly on or near the fault line.

Smaragd

This Austrian term is used only in the Wachau region of Lower Austria for the ripest grapes and, hence, for the fullest-bodied wines. Smaragd (pronounced smar-AHGD) wines must have a minimum of 12.5 percent alcohol,… Continue reading

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