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COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE DEDICATION CONTENTS FOREWORD DISCLAIMERS WHERE THE AUTHOR PRE-EMPTS SEVERAL LINES OF CRITICISM, COMES CLEAN ABOUT HIS MOTIVATIONS AND FOREWARNS THE READER THAT HE IS NOT WITHOUT SELF-INTEREST PROLOGUE IN WHICH A WINE TRAVELLER HAS AN ENCOUNTER WITH A CHAMPAGNE FROM ANOTHER PLANET AND LETS THE READER IN ON A LITTLE SECRET PART I WHERE WE FOLLOW SPARKLING CHAMPAGNE’S REMARKABLE METAMORPHOSIS FROM FAULTY TO FABULOUS PART II IN WHICH WE DRIVE ALONG A HAUNTED RACETRACK IN SEARCH OF A SINGULAR GROWER AND DISCOVER, NOT FOR THE LAST TIME, THAT ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS IN THE WORLD OF CHAMPAGNE PART III WHERE WE MEET THE REVOLUTIONARY PARENTS OF MODERN CHAMPAGNE—SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY PART IV IN WHICH THE AUTHOR TRAVELS TO THE MOUNTAIN TO MEET THE ROCK OF AMBONNAY, TRIES TO GET BLOOD FROM A STONE AND ENDS UP LEAVING ON BETTER TERMS THAN WHEN HE ARRIVED PART V WHERE WE HEAD TO ‘RAHNSE’ TO VISIT THE CATHEDRAL AND THEN TRAVEL SOUTH TO ÉPERNAY, FOR A STROLL DOWN THE LEGENDARY AVENUE DE DISNEY PART VI IN WHICH THE WINE TRAVELLER DRIVES SOUTH FROM ÉPERNAY TO AVIZE AND DISCOVERS THAT ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD PART VII WHERE WE ENCOUNTER MORE THREATS TO CHAMPAGNE’S ‘GREAT WINE’ PRETENSIONS AND FIND OUT WHAT CONVENTIONAL CHAMPAGNE HAS IN COMMON WITH BAKED BREAD, ROASTED NUTS AND SEARED STEAK PART VIII IN WHICH WE PAY A VISIT TO PASCAL AGRAPART, AND THE AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE CAN SOMETIMES MISS WHAT IS RIGHT UNDER HIS NOSE BY PLAYING THE MAN AND NOT THE BALL PART IX WHERE WE UNEARTH EVEN MORE IMAGE PROBLEMS FOR CHAMPAGNE (BY COMPARING THE ‘CHAMPENOIS’ APPROACH WITH BEST PRACTICE IN BURGUNDY) AND LEARN THAT THE ENGLISH ARE THE NECROPHILIACS OF THE WINE WORLD PART X IN WHICH THE AUTHOR TRIES TO COMPREHEND ANSELME SELOSSE VIA A BLEND OF POP PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORICAL MINUTIAE AND THEN PLAYS WORD GAMES WITH THE MAN HIMSELF PART XI WHERE WE BLEND A FEW THINGS TOGETHER IN ORDER TO PRODUCE A HISTOIRE VRAIE OF CHAMPAGNE AND THEN EXPLORE THE EXTENT TO WHICH BRAND HAS COME TO DOMINATE LAND IN THIS FAMOUS REGION PART XII IN WHICH WE HEAD SOUTH TO VERTUS AND VISIT A GREAT GROWER MAKING ‘CRAZY WINE’ IN ORDER TO REMIND OURSELVES, ONCE AGAIN, THAT CHAMPAGNE IS A WINE, FIRST AND FOREMOST PART XIII THE CONTINUATION OF OUR HISTOIRE VRAIE, WHERE THE AUTHOR VIEWS ADVANCED CAPITALISM THROUGH THE ROSIEST OF GLASSES AND PERHAPS TAKES THE FRIENDSHIP TOO FAR BY COMPARING THE HISTORY OF CHAMPAGNE TO THAT OF CAMEMBERT AND FREE-RANGE CHICKEN PART XIV IN WHICH WE TRAVEL FROM VERTUS TO THE HISTORIC MARKET CITY OF TROYES, ALL THE WHILE GRAPPLING WITH THE IDEOLOGIES OF CHAMPAGNE’S SEPARATISTS PART XV WHERE THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE PROBLEMS WITH THE TERM ‘GROWER REVOLUTION’ AND THEN OFFERS THE READER A CHOICE BETWEEN TWO RADICALLY DIFFERENT WORLDS OF CHAMPAGNE PART XVI IN WHICH WE VISIT OUR FIRST AUBE GROWER AND LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN OUTSIDER IN YOUR OWN REGION PART XVII THE FINAL INSTALMENT OF OUR HISTOIRE VRAIE, WHERE THE TRUE GROWER REVOLUTIONS ARE REVEALED—AND YES, THERE WERE MORE THAN ONE PART XVIII IN WHICH WE VISIT A VIGNERON FARMER—OR IS THAT A FARMER VIGNERON? PART XIX WHERE WE DELVE INTO THE REMAINING KEY FACTORS THAT LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHAMPAGNE’S CURRENT BATCH OF GREAT GROWER–PRODUCERS PART XX IN WHICH WE VISIT THE LAST OF OUR GROWERS IN THE AUBE AND LEARN THAT, NO MATTER HOW SERIOUSLY WE TAKE IT, WINE’S MAIN WORK IS TO MAKE US HAPPY EPILOGUE A SHORT MANIFESTO IN WHICH THE AUTHOR ASKS YOU, THE WINE LOVER, A SIMPLE, SOMEWHAT RHETORICAL QUESTION: ‘WHAT SORT OF CHAMPAGNE DO YOU REALLY WANT TO DRINK?’ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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