Fine Champagne

[ French feen shahn-pan-yuh ]

noun

1. a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fine Champagne¹

Borrowed into English from French around 1865–70

Example Sentences

Some books are the literary equivalent of fine Champagne—delicious, much-desired, and appropriate for practically everyone.

From The Daily Beast

He would also have poured down an eye-opener consisting of half a water glass of fine Champagne brandy.

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And when they came, it was for the good dinners, and the fine champagne direct from France.

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In what sort of a company was I, then, where mere seamen wore diamond rings and drank fine champagne from pewter pots?

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Still, one at least had company now; and he was not the man to be insensible to the fine champagne of the unexpected.

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This was followed by cheese and dessert, and there was a free flow of fine champagne.

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