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Champagne In Popular Culture
Champagne (wine), Champagne has featured prominently in popular culture for over a century, due in part to a long history of effective marketing and product placement by leading Champagne houses and their representatives, such as Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne, CIVC. In time this created an association of Champagne with luxury and exclusivity.R. Phillips ''A Short History of Wine'' pg 245 Harper Collins 2000 The popularity and positive attributes associated with Champagne have caused many other sparkling wine producers not located in the French wine region of Champagne (wine region), Champagne to incorrectly use the name "champagne" to describe their wines.E. McCarthy & M. Ewing-Mulligan ''"French Wine for Dummies"'' pg 149-150 Wiley Publishing 2001 Early history Although sparkling wine was invented in the Limoux area of Languedoc in 1535, the wine we know today as Champagne was first produced in the France, French region of the Champagne (wine region), same name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grape-Shot
Grapeshot is a type of artillery round invented by a British Officer during the Napoleonic Wars. It was used mainly as an anti infantry round, but had other uses in naval combat. In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of ammunition that consists of a collection of smaller-caliber round shots, which in most cases are about the size of a golf ball, packed tightly in a canvas bag and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile. Grapeshot also comes packaged in clusters of three by iron rings, and in three tiers, with the shot being held in by cast iron rings. When assembled, the shot resembled a cluster of grapes, hence the name. Grapeshot was used both on land and at sea. On firing, the canvas wrapping disintegrates and the contained balls scatter out from the muzzle, giving a ballistic effect similar to a giant shotgun. Grapeshot was devastatingly effective against massed infantry at short range and was also used at medium rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
