| "Come quickly, I am drinking the stars!" | | | | making white wine from black grapes. Another |
| These, according to some, were the words | | | | imaginative technique he was able to come up |
| uttered by Dom Perignon when he tasted the | | | | with, which then made him even more popular, |
| first sparkling champagne he ever made. It was | | | | was blending grape juices from the same grape |
| later found out that this quote made its first | | | | from different vineyards. This was no easy feat |
| appearance in a print advertisement in late 1800. | | | | and takes great amount of patient and knowledge |
| Born in a wealthy French family, Dom Pierre | | | | about grapes. To this day, most of the practices |
| Perignon served as the cellar master in Abbey of | | | | he developed were still being used by Champagne |
| Hautvillers since his teens until the time of his | | | | makers, particularly the extensive blending of |
| death. Back then, in-bottle refermentation | | | | grapes from different vineyards. |
| presented tremendous problems for winemakers, | | | | In 1936, the Champagne Dom Perignon was first |
| thus he veered away from using this procedure. | | | | produced by Moet et Chandon who bought |
| It was said that he established a set of wine | | | | Abbey of Hautvillers. Globally celebrated as the |
| making rules which included choosing only the | | | | finest sparkling wine, Champagne Dom Perignon |
| very best harvests of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay | | | | raises the French flag in making it as one of the |
| grapes to be followed by a long slow aging. | | | | best wine producing countries in the world today. |
| In the wine making world he was best known and | | | | A bottle a bottle of Perignon indeed signifies class |
| considered a "miracle" by fellow wine makers for | | | | and excellence. |