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Queen Elizabeth II turns winemaker with Windsor sparkling wine
The monarch is now making her own sparkling wine with grapes grown in Windsor, England.
The Queen of England clearly has a taste for bubbly.
The first batch has already been released and sold like hotcakes.
A stone's throw from the Queen's Windsor Castle residence, in the county of Berkshire, UK, a wine merchant was given permission to plant a vineyard in “Windsor Great Park” in 2011.
Laithwaite's imagined creating a sparkling wine from grapes grown in the Royal Park, planting the three varieties typically used to make French champagne: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.
Note, however, that the wine can't be sold as a “champagne,” of course, since only wines produced in a specific region of France and made using set procedures can use the protected name.
Read more at source: The Malaymailonline