The History of Champagne
by James Beard

In the attached article from the mid-Fifties, the celebrated American chef James Beard (1903 – 1985) walks the reader through the history of Champagne as only a true lover of food and wine can do:

“Not until around 1670 was a way discovered to imprison those tantalizing bubbles in every bottle, and keep the bottle from exploding. Credit for inventing sparkling Champagne is attributed, inaccurately perhaps, to a Benedictine monk named Dom Perignon…It is said that as an old, blind man, Dom Perignon could sniff a glass of Champagne, sip it, swish it about his mouth, and then unfailingly say from what hillside the grapes had come…”

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