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I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, The Code to Cezzan is a unique Champagne sub-region. It sits south of the Marne and southwest of the Coatee Blanche.

If you put your finger on a map and traced your way from the northeast corner of the Coateab Blanc, way down to the southwest

corner of Cézon, you'd follow a line of chalky soil in the Cozab Blanc.

It's perfect for brilliant and bright Chardonnay. Then you'd pass over the marshes of St. Gong, an area that sits

between the Kotublanc and Saisan. And finally your trace on the map would pass over the varied but predominantly clay soils of

Cezanne, which is also a haven for Chardonnay, but the richer and darker side of what

Chardonnay can be. The land separating the Coatesablanc from Cezan is as much of physical separation

as it is a psychological separation in terms of Champagne styles, though today the physical land is much easier to traverse than it once was.

The marshes of St. Gond were slowly drained over the 1900s.

And though today the wetland is much drier

due to these draining initiatives,

during the First World War,

the wetlands here were a major obstacle in battles.

Just a few roads could be used in the area and a strategic fight

fought in 1914 helped to sway the tide from the Nazis to the allies.

Perhaps the marshes separated Sezan from the main hub of the Champaign region, even more in previous centuries.

If Sezan seems a bit mysterious, this is in part because its history is currently very much in the making. In Wine Books as recent as 1970, the Saisan might receive a passing sentence of acknowledgement and even in most modern day sources

The region is summed up in a few concise and usually vague or general sentences

Sezan is often overlooked because of its lack of Grand Cruz sites,

and it is often taxonomized as an extension of the Cozabanc

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