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Even the terms ' and "Champagne method" were forbidden by an EU court decision in 1994. the description most often used for sparkling wines using the second fermentation in the bottle process, but not from the Champagne region, is '. Sparkling wines are produced worldwide, and many producers use special terms to define them: Spain uses "Cava", Italy designates it ', and South Africa uses '. An Italian sparkling wine made from the Muscat grape uses the DOCG "Asti" and from the Glera grape the DOCG "Prosecco". In Germany, Sekt is a common sparkling wine. Other French wine regions cannot use the name Champagne: e.g., Burgundy and Alsace produce "". In 2008, more than 3,000 bottles of sparkling wine produced in California labelled with the term "Champagne" were destroyed by Belgian government authorities.