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An Uncertain History of Champagne
Just how champagne came to be
opinions vary and there are many.
The French insist it was no mistake
like all great art they highly rate;
indeed, a felicitous coupling
of skill and savoir faire* resulting
in a tingling bubbly effervescence
rocketed champagne to prominence.
(Other stories and less discreet
explain the wine maker fell asleep
and thus the fermentation
exceeded normal maturation.)
The French even claim to know the name
of him who gave the wine its fame,
(a lowly monk named Dom Pérignon),
who described it as a phenomenon
akin to “drinking the stars,” an epithet
as valid today as when he first sipped it.
*Savoir faire = Know-how
Copyright ©
Maurice Rigoler
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