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Who Invented Champagne?

Not French.

For them, this may come as a surprise - somewhere even an insult - but champagne is an invention of the British.

As anyone who has ever made their own ginger ale is well aware, bubbles are the product of natural fermentation. The only problem is learning to control them.

The taste for "pop" was developed by the British back in the XNUMXth century, when they imported green, "flat" wine from the Champagne province and added sugar and molasses to it to ferment the wine. The British also came up with strong, charcoal-fired glass bottles and corks to contain the process.

According to the documents of the British Royal Society, the method, which is now commonly called methode champenoise (Champagne (French)), was first described in England in 1662. The French, of course, added elegance and marketing flavor, but they brought the modern "dry" technique (or brut) to perfection only in 1876 (and even then for export to the same England).

The United Kingdom is the largest consumer of champagne supplied by France. In 2004, 34 million bottles were drunk in Britain. This is almost a third of the total French export market: twice as much as in the US, three times as much as in Germany, and twenty times more than in Spain.

The Benedictine monk Dom Perignon (1638-1715) did not invent champagne - in fact, he spent most of his time trying to get rid of the bubbles.

His famous exclamation, "Look, I'm drinking the stars," supposedly addressed to fellow monks, was coined to advertise champagne in the late XNUMXth century. The true heritage of Pérignon in relation to champagne was the skillful mixing (blending) of grape varieties from different vineyards and the use of wire or hemp mesh for bottle caps.

A loophole in the law allows Americans to officially call their sparkling wines "champagne". According to the 1891 Madrid Treaty concerning the International Registration of Marks, only the province of Champagne can use this name. The provision was reinstated in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, which the US Senate refused to ratify, and instead the US signed a separate peace treaty with Germany.

When Prohibition was repealed, American vintners immediately took advantage of a loophole in the law and began to freely sell their own "champagne" - to the great annoyance of the French.

Cups similar to wide bowls (coupe), from which it is customary to drink champagne, were not made according to the shape and size of Marie Antoinette's breasts. For the first time such cups were produced in 1663 (in England), long before her reign. But "topless" ladies as a model of a vessel for drinking champagne, alternative to English, no one has yet proposed.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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