Champagne is one of the 26 French regions, located in northeastern France. Lives are approximately 1 342 363 inhabitants, and that about 50 000 inhabitants living in the capital Châlons-en-Champagne.
Among the historic monuments here include medieval churches, castles and sumptuous historic military fortifications. Champagne, however, visitors attending only because the local history and nature, suitable for tourism, but also because of the renowned and quality sparkling wines. In the Champagne region, it is good to great wine-growing climate, and so are the vine has grown from 1 century BC The best and most famous vineyards are located in the north of this region, in these areas is beginning to harvest the grapes later than in southern areas of France. By then the local vineyards produce an annual average 1 900 000 hl. wine. The Champagne grapes are usually collected manually, and therefore the wine so unique. Sparkling wines produced in the French region called "champagne". Therefore, this name should properly apply only to wines produced from grapes grown in this region.
