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
Categories:
wine maker, history,
Form: Didactic
The process of making fine wine
Starts with the ripe grape on the vine
The wine maker plays
For long endless days
Trying for a product sublime
Now wine can be bought in a jug
Or a box with a plastic plug
Just weeks to table
But it's still able
To quickly put ass on the rug
6/20/ll
The Bottle of Wine contest
Categories:
wine maker, food, funnywine,
Form: Limerick