Dom Perignon Trivia

Kelly Curtis
Director- Chicago ABC Bartending Schools
1034 West Belmont
Chicago, IL 60657

One of the world's greatest champagnes was named after a blind Benedictine monk, Dom Perignon (1639-1715), who invented this sparkling wine and was himself a wine expert who added a short lived second fermentation to his wine. Dom Perignon sought to induce the second, accidental fermentation of the wine of champagne at a given time, regulate it and keep the effervescence in the wine having understood that the pressure was due to the carbon dioxide, he decided to use bottles made of thicker glass and better corks, secured with a wire to protect his special champagne.