Champagne on the amazing race!

The amazing Race contestants hit the Champagne region, and struggled to create a pyramid of glasses, and pour the champagne from the top.

They also had to go down a cave, find one specific bottle and opened it with a sabre, which is the way the French troops celebrated victories in Napoleon time!

I tried it myself, but with a chef knife, and I basically completely broke the bottle!

Just try it with a cheap bottle!!

Angelo Gaya

Angelo Gaya is recognized in the winery industry as the master of intelligence. Not so much in the word itself, but Gaya introduced into the US an expensive Italian wine that no other Italian winery had the guts to do. In a list of Bullet notes, I will explain the changes that gaya made to Wines of Italy as far as introducing it into America.

* Gaya found sucess in the US by creating Chardonay from the pigma like it was done so in Burgundy.
*changed bottle style
*Gaya Chardonay priced at $50.00 the bottle
*It was not recognized by the DOC because of the grape
*In order to have his wines exposed Gaya had to start wine tasting forums

A sense for Italian

Exploring only the wines of France will leave a gap to the 3rd largest wine producing country...Italy. Italian wines were at most from the 1960's to the 1980's. Italian wines were wide spread when Americans introduced Chianti from Tuscany into the US. These wines were originally introduced in restaurants such as pizzeria from New York city.By the mid 1990's, Northern Italian restaurants grew a popularity for the wines and wanted better one from Tuscany. An enormous demand for state family controlled vineyards in Italy grew enormously. Because of Time Magazine, Italy grew widespread in America saving it from a time in which it would have sinked.

So I tought the best way to show people anything abour French wines, is to show a map, because France classifies its wines by regions, so with the AOC (Apellation d'origine controlee), there is no way to call a wine a bordeaux if it's not from Bordeaux. There are quite a few different wines in France as you can see. Any favorites? I like Champagne, and Muscadet, but then again it depends on which ones.