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Champagne lobby pops its cork over Obama's inauguration

1/12/2013

Tensions are bubbling in Washington as President Barack Obama's upcoming second inauguration has come under fire from yet another group: The Champagne Bureau. For a wine to be a champagne, it must come from the Champagne region of France, and the lobby is complaining because they believe Obama's Inauguration Day menu unfairly labels a California wine as "champagne." How gauche. [Source]

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