Fun fact about Champagne

Fun fact about Champagne

Fun fact about Champagne

* The shallow champagne glass originated with Marie Antoinette. It was first formed from wax moulds made of her breasts!

* Bubbles in Champagne were seen by early wine makers as a highly undesirable defect to be prevented.

* There are roughly 44 million tiny bubbles in a bottle of sparkling wine.

* A cork will escape a bottle of sparkling wine at 38-40 mph.

* Dom Perignon invented the mushroom shaped cork and wire cage that allowed champagne to be safely bottled.  Previous attempts had all ended with popped corks. Read more

Veuve Clicquot Champagne

Veuve Clicquot Champagne

Veuve Clicquot Champagne

The remarkable Madame Clicquot (1777-1866) is often considered the first businesswoman of the modern era. Née Nicole-Barbe Ponsardin, she was widowed in 1805 at the age of 27. Veuve Clicquot ( Veuve means widow in French) defied every convention of the day to take the helm of her late husband’s small Champagne house. She enlisted help wisely, took astute risks and made important technological innovations (including the invention of remuage or riddling), leading the House to world renown. One of her most significant triumphs was sending a secret shipment of her Champagne to Russia in 1814 in defiance of Napoleon’s blockade–a great success. Read more

Moet Chandon Champagne

Moet Chandon Champagne

Moet Chandon Champagne

The love story began in 1745 when Louis XV’s favourite, The Marquise de Pompadour, who surrounded herself with the greatest artists and philosophers of the era, used to proclaim that “champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking”.

Some of the greatest women in history have contributed to the celebrity of Moët & Chandon champagne. Both Napoleon’s mother and his wife, Josephine, were it’s powerful proponents under the First Empire.  They were succeeded by women who dared to make waves.  The great Sarah Bernhardt drank a half-bottle of Moët & Chandon with every meal and confided that the bubbles had a marvellous effect on her. And amid the whirl of the Roaring Twenties and its seething artistic atmosphere, champagne was the heady pleasure of “le Tout Paris”.  Josephine Baker walked her panther on the terrace of La Rotonde and visited the Moët & Chandon cellars Read more

What is Dom Perignon?

Dom Perignon

What is Dom Perignon?

A History
Most Champagne houses make a range of Champagnes, just like most wineries make a range of wines. Even Californian Zinfandel makers will make a “typical” Zinfandel and then a “Reserve” Zin - often the reserve is from a special batch of vines, or aged for longer, or so on.

Moët et Chandon decided to give their top-of-the-line release “Dom Pérignon”.

Dom Pérignon was the legendary Benedictine monk that supposedly invented Champagne, “seeing stars”. His tomb is in the Abbey of Hautvillers. Moët et Chandon bought their lands and vineyards back in 1794.

What is the Dom Pérignon Wine?
Dom Pérignon was launched in 1921 by Moët et Chandon as their “top of the line” - in this regard it is similar to Laurent-Perrier’s “Grand Siecle”, Roederer’s “Cristal”, and Taittinger’s “Comtes de Champagne”. It is the very best Champagne that their company puts out.

Dom Pérignon is a “single vineyard” wine. It is only made from grapes made in that one vineyard, and it is only made in certain years when the harvest is really good. It is renowned for its beautiful flavor, delicious finish, longevity, and quality. Read more

Champagne Wine Quotes - Quotations about Wine

Champagne Wine Quotes - Quotations about Wine

Lily Bollinger was asked “When do you drink champagne?”, and replied:
I only drink champagne when I’m happy, and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I’m thirsty.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Dorothy Parker

I am drinking the stars!
Dom Perignon, on his first sip of bubbly Champagne Read more

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