Champagne is deeply French – but the English invented the bubbles
In 1889, the Syndicat du Commerce des Vins de Champagne produced a pamphlet promoting champagne at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, claiming that Dom Perignon, procurator of the Benedictine Abbey of Hautvillers from 1668, was the “inventor,” “creator” or discoverer” of sparkling champagne. “Come, Brothers! I drink stars!” is the famous quote often attributed to him. The story of a blind monk having an epiphany, […]