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Limoux, The Oldest Sparkling Wine In The World
To everybody’s surprise, not to mention disappointment, it is not Champagne that holds the reputation of the oldest sparking in the world, but it is the sparkling of Limoux! Limoux, a town in the region of Occitanie in France is not only the oldest sparkling winemaking region in the world but is also one of…
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Everyone has heard of Champagne, but there are also plenty of other sparkling wines that come from France. Languedoc-Roussillon is actually the largest wine region of France and perhaps the oldest. Wine historians believe that the world’s first sparkling wine was produced in this region in 1531, by the monks at the abbey in Saint-Hilaire. It…
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