Well, we don't actually know what it was like the night they invented champagne but here's how Lerner and Lowe imagined it for the musical Gigi:
It's plain as it can be
They thought of you and me
The night they invented champagne
They absolutely knew
That all we'd want to do is
Fly to the sky on champagne
And shout to everyone in sight
That since that world began
No woman or a man has ever been as happy as we are tonight!
The night they invented champagne
It's plain as it can be
They thought of you and me
The night they invented champagne
They absolutely knew
That all we'd want to do is
Fly to the sky on champagne
And shout to everyone in sight
That since that world began
No woman or a man has ever been as happy as we are tonight!
Well, you see champagne is thoroughly French. If it's not French, it's not champagne. It's that simple.
Champagne, the very symbol of sophistication, graceful living and celebration, is produced nowhere else in the world but France. All champagnes are made within a few miles of each other outside Reims and Epernay, near the Abbey of Saint-Pierre where the legendary Benedictine monk, Dom Pérignon, supposedly invented the bubbly by accident in the early 18th Century (some would say by divine inspiration).
Just as still wines have different characteristics and tastes, so do champagnes, and the great houses of Mumm, Piper-Heidsieck, Taittinger, Veuve Clicquot and Moët & Chandon, among more than 100 others, want to prove this with guided tours (in English) of their cellars and tasting of the current vintage.
Today we visited the champagne region (only 90 miles from Paris) traveling through Reims, Epernay and Ay. We stopped at the magnificent Notre Dame Cathedral in Reims, the small village of Ay where many family-owned, boutique champagne brands are produced, the famous Mumm champagne house, and the home of Pommery champagne. What a glorious, bubbly, effervescent journey this was!
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