The Tenth Day of Christmas with Champagne and Sparkling Wine

Lying about 20 kilometers south of the walled city of Carcassonne, the town of Limoux is supposedly the place where the

traditional method of making sparkling wine by a second fermentation in the bottle was invented, even before it occurred in Champagne. The producers of Limoux sparkling wine insist on this point, as if precedence were everything. Let th…