Jim Laughlin Quotations

For something to be officially and legally categorized as Champagne, it must come from the Champagne region in France. It's a legally designated region just a little northeast of Paris. Anything we make in America, or anything made in Italy or any other country, is sparkling wine.

Everything from Spain is kind of flying off the charts lately. They're finding decent growing regions all over the world now. Spain seems to be hot.

The thing that I like that is very popular is a sparkling wine called Jay, by Jordan Vintners out of California.

The way that Champagne and sparkling wines are prepared is identical.

They'll flip it over, pop the cork and that spits out all the sediment.

After the juice is pressed, it ferments a little while, and in essence, after three to six months you have some fermented grape juice, which could be this nasty wine. The way they make it into Champagne is by adding sugar and yeast.