Champagne Riots
Dan Snow's History Hit
00:00
The Wine Industry
In two thousand and eight when champagne sales were a record high, the legal body for appellations in france announced that they were going to do a review of the champagne area. It its timing was impeccable, shall we say. They're still doing the analysis of the sights, but should you be on the right side of the border, your land will be around a million uros a hector. If you land on the wrong side of theborder, you might be soiling your land for about five thousand uros aHector. Well, if you can't plant vines in champagne, you can plant ser that's the difference, a million versus five thousand. That really does
Play episode from 21:12
Transcript
