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    CHAMPGNE JEEPER

    Sep 01, 2019 3 minutes
    MIKE ZEKULICH

    CHAMPAGNE Jeeper is an unusual name for a classy French bubbly but then it stems from unusual times – the result of World War II and the gratitude of the American army who gave a Willy’s jeep to Armand Goutorbe, a former owner of Jeeper House.

    It is said that the patriot young winemaker who saved Americans from certain death during the war only to be badly injured himself, managed to return to his native Champagne, heartened

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