As human beings, we tend to define ourselves by our surroundings and more often than not, the other way around, because, well, we’re human. We ascribe poetry to our food, descriptors to our drink and how this applies to our own little world. The Champagne Bureau located in Washington DC, is the U.S. representative of the Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC), the trade association that represents all the grape growers and houses of Champagne, France.  They’ve constructed the Champagne Notebooks–a collection of words, a guideline, if you will, … Read more →