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 Dom Pérignon (1639-1715) was a Bénédictin monk born in France. Dom
Perignon, known for his brilliant mind, becomes for 47 years, Prosecutor
and Administrator of the Cellars of the abbey of Hautvilliers near Reims. At
that period, Reims was the town of the sacrament of the kings of France and the
wine produced here was famous for mass celebration. Dom Pérignon was a wine
expert. May be because he was blind, he was endowed with an outstanding sense of
smell and palate. He was able to recognize which grapes came from which
vineyards. He had the brilliant idea to assemble the wines between them in such
a way that qualities of the ones are added to those of the others. Dom Pérignon knew of the particular characteristic of the white wine of
Aÿ, the wine of Champagne. It became effervescent with a second,
short-lived fermentation. It still contained some yeasts which remained
dormant in cold weather. Under the influence of the warmth of spring, when
the sap begins to work in the vine, the yeasts wake and proliferate. Dom Pérignon sought to induce this second, accidental fermentation of
the wine of Champagne at a given time, regulate it and keep its
effervescence in the wine. Having understood that the pressure was due to
the carbon dioxide, he decided to use bottle made of thicker glass and better
corks secure with a wire. When he died at the beginning of the XVIII century,
Champagne wines were favorite at the King's court. Louis XVI and especially
Madam de Pompadour will brag for the Champagne as we know it today. Today, Moet
et Chandon, the company who bought in 1794 the Hautvillers' monastery, gave
the name of Dom Perignon to their very best cuvée.
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