Statesman who brought dry champagne to America (6)
I believe the answer is:
brutus
'statesman who brought' is the definition.
'Brutus' can be an answer for 'statesman'. I am unsure of the remainder of the definition.
'dry champagne to america' is the wordplay.
'dry champagne' becomes 'brut' (I've seen this before).
'to america' becomes 'US' (abbreviation for the United States).
'brut'+'us'='BRUTUS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for brutus that I've seen before include "Roman conspirator" , "An honourable man, said Antony" , "Conspirator in the murder of Julius Caesar" , "legendary hero" , ""The noblest Roman of them all"" .)