Petie Kladstrup is the author, together with her husband, Don, of Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times.
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Champagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth century and became famously known as Champagne Charlie. Ignoring critics who warned that America w... SEE MORE