Champagne is not a style of wine or a way of making it. It is a cold, chalky, legally fenced piece of northern France, and almost everything people find confusing about sparkling wine dissolves once that one fact is in place.
For most of history, flavor was a mystery you could taste but never see. Then a machine came along that could pull an aroma apart, molecule by molecule, and tell you exactly what it was made of — and in doing so it revealed something strange: two completely different sources can smell like the same thing because they carry the very same molecule.
The ten most-praised independent burger joints in Barcelona, ranked by how often the city's best-known food guides recommend them — no chains allowed.