Should we pay more for similar quality?
Poll on Ice Crémant de Luxembourg If home-grown grapes are being used to produce sparkling wine in several European countries through a specified method, why does Champagne cost more? Some factors that have been attributed to this significantly higher cost of champagne are the harsher growing climate of grapes in the Champagne region of Northern France. This makes for more laborious cultivation hence higher prices. Expertise and established valuable brand identity have also been quoted as factors relating to the high price on Champagne. Despite these challenges, all of the hype and associated bourgeois, the Champagne region and its wine houses are adapting their business models to a new generation of consumer behaviour! As other sparkling wine producers in Europe begin to expand on the varieties of grapes types they grow, the possibilities to introduce new splendid alternatives increase. On the wine growing region of Luxembourg, the Moselle region, producers have added such ...