Champagne [Boxed Book & Map Set]

Champagne [Boxed Book & Map Set]: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region From Peter Liem, the lauded expert behind the top-rated online resource ChampagneGuide.net, comes this groundbreaking guide to the modern wines of Champagne--a region that in recent years has undergone one of the most dramatic transformations in the wine-growing world. Peter Liem's ​​magnificent book has just been published – and it's an absolute must for any champagne lover , even more so as it's accompanied by the comprehensive 1944 Larmat maps of Champagne's individual lieu-dits. According to Peter, “the twentieth-century image of Champagne often emphasized brand, marketing, and celebration, sometimes to the detriment of champagne's identity as a wine. While this is still part of the hegemony, the twenty-first century has brought a more diverse portrait, with both producers and consumers addressing questions of integrity, authenticity, and place…This section introduces some of the people behind this transformation. They all have a common cause: moving the appellation forward by giving champagne, at last, a true sense of place.”