Most people know that in order for champagne to be legit it has to come from the Champagne region of France. I am not putting down some of the popular and tasty sparkling wines you can find from California but if you are celebrating a special occasion, and bubbly is in order, it might be a little easier on the wallet to get a domestic bottle of sparkling wine instead.. I’ve tried a few and will admit that are not half bad.
I was curious where France exports most of it’s champagne and found some data off of the UK’s Gaurdian News website. It’s no surprise that France is the biggest consumer of champagne with a whopping 181,209,546 bottles in 2008, but in terms of which country imports the most champagne, the UK comes in 1st with the US close behind.
Here is a thematic map I built in Maker! that shows the number of bottles of champagne exported around the world from France in 2008 :
To view the dataset in Finder! click here.
Cheers!
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A few years back, while living in Brooklyn, my wife and I stopped at a local liquor store that was hosting a mezcal tasting. At the tasting, I satisfied a long-standing curiosity by asking about the difference between mezcal and tequila. I was told that the difference was much the same as the difference between sparkling wine and champagne – that tequila comes from a specific geographic region.
Just a thought for a future Dataset of the Day.
Terry,
I actually had mezcal for the first time at a family reunion in Taos, New Mexico over last Thanksgiving and really enjoyed it. I will definitely look into finding out where mezcal is produced. The mezcal we had was given to my uncle as a gift from a small distillery in a remote part of central Mexico.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Bill
Any luck finding data for the location of the vineyards themselves?
Commercial Wineries by County in California
Map:
http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/4011?page=
Dataset:
http://finder.geocommons.com/overlays/11232
Thanks. This is a really cool site. I appreciate the effort you have put into this.
The interface is easy to use and the resulting maps, in my opinion, are superb.
Thanks.
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