Same chalk, same grapes, same method as Champagne — just a few hundred miles north, and only ripening properly since the climate warmed up.

Same grape, same winemaker, wildly different wine — just move the vineyard a few thousand miles and change the weather.

The list is built to overwhelm you into pointing at something familiar. Here is how to read it properly instead.

Old World bottles look like they are hiding something. They are — it is just hidden in the label, in plain sight, in French.