2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
New Year, midnight, toasts and of course, champagne! The shiny, sparkling and noisy drink is part of the first seconds of each starting year in the festive traditions of the whole world. To its tart and refined taste, each of us is accustomed to add our dreams and hopes for the next 365 days. Champagne, celebration and happiness have long been one.
And although it is synonymous with New Year, its solemn sparks are part of many other merry events, of many other traditions, cultures and eras.
You probably already think that this unique taste, which is neither very sweet nor very bitter, sparkling and beautiful, can not be obtained after a long mixing of virtuoso winemakers in a large cellar of a royal palace. If you really think so, you will probably be surprised to learn that the drink of the drink, His Majesty the famous champagne, was invented quite by accident.
How exactly this happened - the story is not uniform. According to one legend, winemakers in Champagne - a historic region in northern France, which gave its name to champagne, tried to imitate the famous wine of Burgundy. However, the cold climate in Champagne did not allow the wine in their cellars to ferment.
However, it was the cold that allowed the drink to be stored and to start fermenting again with the bursting of spring. This process was accompanied by the release of carbon dioxide from the bottle. Some of the bottles did not last and exploded, but those that were more durable turned out to be full of wonderful sparkling wine. This happened sometime around 1700, most likely the time of the first champagne toasts.
Another legend tells of the monk Dom Perignon, who was the man who discovered the process of the second fermentation and thus the way to prepare champagne. Skeptics believe that there are many weaknesses in this version, and even believe that Dom Perignon initially tried to eliminate the bubbles in the wine discovered before him by another. The reason was the continuous breaking of the bottles as a result of re-fermentation.
But in any case, Dom Perignon has gone down in history as the one who understood the benefits of the second fermentation in the bottle and started making wine from it. Dom Perignon is also the first winemaker to make white wine from red grapes. The monk Perignon remains in the history of champagne, which is why one of the famous types of champagne today bears his name. A bottle of Dom Perignon now costs BGN 200, 500, 800, and in some places BGN 1,000 each.
Today there are three varieties of grapes that are used to make the classic champagne - Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Magno. In fact, champagne nowadays can only be called a drink produced in the field of Champagne, provided that it has gone through the entire 18-month fermentation process. Other similar drinks are simply called sparkling wine. Today, Champagne produces about 200 million bottles of champagne a day.
Champagnefrom which we can choose today is dry, semi-dry, sweet, completely dry or extra dry. And it perfectly combines cheeses, pasta, nuts or fruits. And of course lots of smiles and good mood!
Happy Holidays!
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