How Champagne Got Its Name

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No true wine lover would abstain from drinking champagne. For most people, the sparkling bubbly is the best wine ever. A lot of us know that the creation of champagne goes way back to the Roman times, but it's not until centuries later that the sparkling white wine we know and love today has been developed. Getting acquainted with the production of champagne means you have to visit the region itself. From your hotel reims accommodation, you won't have any problem visiting one of the vineyards that produces the precious bubbly.

We're sure you know who and what Dom Perignon is, but do you actually know that the beloved monk did not actually invent the sparkling wine? The fizzy quality of the wine was discovered by accident, a product of second fermentation that produces the foam that we're familiar with. The first fermentation, which happens during winter, is usually halted because of the extreme cold. Fermentation is continued in springtime. Winemakers like Dom Perignon continuously worked to perfect the quality and production of ...
... the wines until they came up with the foaming and fizzy wine that we enjoy today.

It is during the second half of the 17th century that champagne started to become a hit among the French and British aristocracy. It is the British who developed bottles strong enough to contain the bubbly, making the wine even more popular among the British elite.

If you're thinking of visiting the region of Champagne, you can easily make arrangements from your hotel calais accommodation or from your paris hotel room. It only takes an hour or less to reach Champagne from Paris, faster if you take the train from the Gare d'Est station. You can easily take public transportation to get to the city of Reims and to the vineyards.