{"id":6677,"date":"2007-07-03T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/bubbly-offering-for-bastille-day\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T00:59:00","slug":"bubbly-offering-for-bastille-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/07\/bubbly-offering-for-bastille-day\/","title":{"rendered":"BUBBLY OFFERING FOR BASTILLE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>WE\u2019RE assured there\u2019re 45-million bubbles in every bottle of Champagne, but we\u2019re unsure if they were ever counted, or if it\u2019s just an educated guess.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re accepting the word of our French winemaking mates, and on the 14th of this month be amongst those world-wide who\u2019ll enjoy a few million of those bubbles \u2013 Bastille Day, after all, is not just the preserve of the French.<\/p>\n

And in Sydney one Frenchman who has chosen to spend half of every year living in the Harbour City will have a trifecta of reasons to pop the cork: Nicolas Feuillatte created the Champagne that today bears his name, he is an enthusiastic Bastille Day party-goer \u2013 and on this year\u2019s Big Day he\u2019s being honoured with the Legion d\u2019Honneur, the French equivalent of a knighthood.<\/p>\n

It is also France\u2019s highest civilian award, Nicolas receiving it in recognition of his sixty years contribution to French commerce: his Champagne is now his country\u2019s third largest-selling brand, and exported to over seventy countries.<\/p>\n

Nicolas, who owned a small vineyard outside Reims with his brother Sege, founded Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte in 1976, dedicating the first vintage to a young opera singer he\u2019d lost his heart to in New York. Since then his brand\u2019s been the Champagne of choice of Jacqui Kennedy and JFK, Princess Diana, and been used on the set of British TV hit \u201cColin & Justin\u2019s Wedding Belles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicolas Feuillatte\u2019s biggest-selling label in Australia is the Reserve Particuliere Brut NV that sells for $55; it\u2019s got Bastille Day partying written all over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WE\u2019RE assured there\u2019re 45-million bubbles in every bottle of Champagne, but we\u2019re unsure if they were ever counted, or if it\u2019s just an educated guess. So we\u2019re accepting the word of our French winemaking mates, and on the 14th of this month be amongst those world-wide who\u2019ll enjoy a few million of those bubbles \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[399],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chardonnay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}