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AT first glance, Bruno Paillard seems anything but a rebel. Dressed in an elegant and hardly inexpensive suit, he appears to be every bit the suave French businessman very much part of the establishment.

But, once upon a time, Paillard was the quintessential rebel who acted against his father’s wishes. His act of defiance in leaving the family business to set up his own Champagne house caused something of ruckus within the Paillard family, to say the least.

BY MARTIN VENGADESAN

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A lesson in Champagne

It’s a wine

THE first thing you must know about champagne,” said champagne maker Bruno Paillard, “is that it is a wine. Champagne is a great white wine named after the region in which it is produced. European wines are named not by variety but by region of production – for instance, port is actually from the region of Oporto in Portugal.”

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Down Under wine sales leave French firms with sour grapes

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A San Luis Obispo winery is helping turn wine novices into connoisseurs with a new educational tool.

If you're an inexperienced wine lover, you aren't alone.

"I would like to know more about the basics about how it's made, how it's grown, things of that nature," says San Luis Obispo resident Nick Musial. "I'm doing a senior project on a feasibility study about growing a vineyard, so I think it might come in handy with some of that stuff."(...)

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Can you turn water into wine? Or woodchips? The United States says yes, Europe says no. For 20 years the row has kept the two sides from deciding what wine is.

Brussels and Washington have been struggling to negotiate a reciprocal wine deal since 1983 but always found it easier to roll over temporary arrangements than to compromise too much.

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