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History of champagne <\/span>A bottle of Champagne being used to christen the USS <\/span>Shangri-La<\/i>\u00a0(CV-38) in 1944. Champagne has had a long history of being used in celebration of events such as the launching of ships.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n
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The history of\u00a0Champagne<\/a>\u00a0began when the\u00a0Romans<\/a>\u00a0planted vineyards in this\u00a0region<\/a>\u00a0of northeast France in the 5th century, or possibly earlier. Over centuries, Champagne evolved from being a pale,\u00a0pinkish<\/a>\u00a0still wine to a\u00a0sparkling wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0Hugh Capet<\/a>\u00a0was crowned\u00a0King of France<\/a>\u00a0in 987 at the cathedral of\u00a0Reims<\/a>, he started a tradition that brought successive monarchs to the region\u2014with the local wine being on prominent display at the coronation banquets.<\/p>\n

The early wine of the Champagne region was a pale, pinkish wine made from\u00a0Pinot noir<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n

The Champenois were envious of the reputation of the wines made from their\u00a0Burgundian<\/a>\u00a0neighbours to the south and sought to produce wines of equal acclaim.<\/p>\n

However the northerly climate of the region gave the Champenois a unique set of challenges in making\u00a0red wine<\/a>. At the far extremes of sustaining\u00a0viticulture<\/a>, the grapes would struggle to ripen fully and often would have bracing levels of\u00a0acidity<\/a>\u00a0and low\u00a0sugar levels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The wines were\u00a0lighter bodied<\/a>\u00a0and thinner than the Burgundies.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the cold winter temperatures prematurely halted\u00a0fermentation<\/a>\u00a0in the cellars, leaving dormant\u00a0yeast<\/a>\u00a0cells that would awaken in the warmth of spring and start fermenting again.<\/p>\n

One of the byproducts of fermentation is the release of\u00a0carbon dioxide<\/a>\u00a0gas, which, if the wine is bottled, is trapped inside the wine, causing intense pressure.<\/p>\n

The pressure inside the weak, early French\u00a0wine bottles<\/a>\u00a0often caused the bottles to explode, creating havoc in the cellars. If the bottle survived, the wine was found to contain\u00a0bubbles<\/a>, something that the early Champenois were horrified to see, considering it a\u00a0fault<\/a>. As late as the 17th century, Champenois wine makers, most notably the\u00a0Benedictine<\/a>\u00a0monk\u00a0Dom P\u00e9rignon<\/a>\u00a0(1638\u20131715), were still trying to rid their wines of the bubbles.<\/sup><\/p>\n

While the Champenois and their French clients preferred their Champagne to be pale and still, the British were developing a taste for the unique bubbly wine. The sparkling version of Champagne continued to grow in popularity, especially among royalty and the wealthy. Following the death of\u00a0Louis XIV of France<\/a>\u00a0in 1715, the court of\u00a0Philippe II, Duke of Orl\u00e9ans<\/a>\u00a0made the sparkling version of Champagne a favorite among the French nobility. More Champenois wine makers attempted to make their wines sparkle deliberately, but did not know enough about how to control the process or how to make wine bottles strong enough to withstand the pressure.<\/sup><\/p>\n

In the 19th century these obstacles were overcome, and the modern Champagne wine industry took form. Advances by the house of\u00a0Veuve Clicquot<\/a>\u00a0in the development of the\u00a0m\u00e9thode champenoise<\/a><\/i>\u00a0made production of sparkling wine on a large scale profitable, and this period saw the founding of many of today’s famous\u00a0Champagne houses<\/a>, including\u00a0Krug<\/a>\u00a0(1843),\u00a0Pommery<\/a>\u00a0(1858) and\u00a0Bollinger<\/a>\u00a0(1829). The fortunes of the Champenois and the popularity of Champagne grew until a series of setbacks in the early 20th century.\u00a0Phylloxera<\/a>\u00a0appeared,\u00a0vineyard growers rioted<\/a>\u00a0in 1910\u201311, the Russian and American markets were lost because of the\u00a0Russian Revolution<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Prohibition<\/a>, and two World Wars made the vineyards of Champagne a battlefield<\/p>\n

The modern era, however, has seen a resurgence of the popularity of Champagne, a wine associated with both luxury and celebration, with sales quadrupling since 1950. Today the region’s 86,500 acres (35,000\u00a0ha) produces over 200 million bottles of Champagne with worldwide demand prompting the French authorities to look into expanding the region’s\u00a0Appellation d’origine contr\u00f4l\u00e9e<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(AOC) zone to facilitate more production<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Timeline<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is a 2003\u00a0historical<\/a>\u00a0science fiction<\/a>\u00a0adventure film<\/a>\u00a0directed by\u00a0Richard Donner<\/a>\u00a0and starring\u00a0Paul Walker<\/a>,\u00a0Frances O’Connor<\/a>,\u00a0Gerard Butler<\/a>,\u00a0Billy Connolly<\/a>,\u00a0David Thewlis<\/a>, and\u00a0Anna Friel<\/a>. Based on\u00a0Michael Crichton<\/a>‘s\u00a01999 novel<\/a>\u00a0of the same name, the screenplay concerns a team of present-day archaeology and history students who are sent back in time to medieval France to rescue their professor from the middle of a battle.<\/p>\n

Jerry Goldsmith<\/a>\u00a0composed the original score, which would have been his last before his death in 2004 (his actual last score was\u00a0Looney Tunes: Back in Action<\/a><\/i>), but was replaced with a new score by\u00a0Brian Tyler<\/a>, after the first cut was re-edited and Goldsmith’s increasing health problems prevented him from continuing.<\/p>\n

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Professor Edward Johnston leads an archaeological study Castlegard, a village near\u00a0La Roque<\/a>\u00a0Castle in\u00a0Dordogne, France<\/a>\u00a0and the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to\u00a0Arnaut de Cervole<\/a>. Her martyrdom led\u00a0France<\/a>\u00a0to win the\u00a0Hundred Years War<\/a>\u00a0against the\u00a0English<\/a>. While excavating a nearby monastery, Johnston’s team finds a\u00a0sarcophagus<\/a>\u00a0containing the remains of a French knight with a lopped ear, holding the hand of his lady, an unheard-of practice for the time.<\/p>\n

Johnston travels to the American headquarters of the ITC Corporation, his project’s sponsor, to inquire whether or not they have tampered with the site. Johnston’s students Kate Erickson, Josh Stern, and Fran\u00e7ois Dontelle, along with\u00a0Scottish<\/a>\u00a0archaeologist Andr\u00e9 Marek; and his son Chris, discover a lens from Johnston’s\u00a0bifocals<\/a>\u00a0and a note begging for help, although both date over 600 years old. When they contact ITC, the company invites them to its headquarters.<\/p>\n

There, the team is introduced to ITC president Robert Doniger and vice-president Steven Kramer. In the process of developing\u00a0teleportation<\/a>\u00a0technology, ITC locked onto a stable\u00a0wormhole<\/a>\u00a0to 1357 Castlegard. Johnston was invited to see the past for himself, but his group has not returned, and ITC wants Marek and company to go back in time to locate him.<\/p>\n

All but Josh volunteer to go.<\/p>\n

The volunteers are stripped of all modern technology save for pendant-shaped markers they can use to initiate their return. They are joined by a security team including ITC’s head of security, Frank Gordon, and two former military men.<\/p>\n

On arrival in 1357, the team finds itself in the path of a young woman chased by English knights; the security men are killed while protecting the group, although one activates his marker after priming a grenade.<\/p>\n

When his body arrives in the present, the grenade detonates and shatters much of the teleportation device. Josh aids Kramer in making repairs.<\/p>\n

The team evades the knights, and the woman leads them to the English-controlled Castlegard.<\/p>\n

They are captured and brought before Lord Oliver de Vannes and his second-in-command, DeKere. De Vannes kills Fran\u00e7ois, believing that he is a French spy. The others are imprisoned along with Johnston, who previously promised de Vannes that he could make\u00a0Greek fire<\/a>\u00a0for the English in exchange for his life. They make their escape but are pursued by the English. Gordon and Johnston are recaptured, while the others make for the monastery, led by the woman.<\/p>\n

DeKere reveals himself to Gordon and Johnston as former ITC employee William Decker; he had frequently used the teleportation device but was not told by ITC that each use damaged his DNA until it was too late, at which point he would die on a return trip. He plans revenge on ITC and kills Gordon. De Vannes orders his knights to march on LaRoque castle, and DeKere brings Johnston along.<\/p>\n

At the monastery, Marek, Kate, and Chris meet de Cervole and realize that the woman is Lady Claire; they have changed history by saving her. Kate and Chris help to swing the upcoming battle in the French’s favor by leading de Cervole’s men through the monastery tunnels they had previously mapped to the castle.<\/p>\n

As the battle starts, Marek is captured while trying to rescue his friends; Lady Claire is also kidnapped. Marek frees himself, Lady Claire, and Johnston, while Chris helps de Cervole defeat de Vannes. Enraged, DeKere slashes off Marek’s earlobe, and Marek realizes that he is destined to be the knight in the sarcophagus. Marek defeats DeKere, recovers the markers, gives them to the others, and says his goodbyes while running off to help the French assure victory and restore history.<\/p>\n

In the present, Josh and Kramer finish the repairs. Doniger, who tried to sabotage their attempts, fears that when the students’ stories become public, ITC will suffer great financial losses. As the machine activates, Doniger races into it, attempting to block the teleportation, but instead is sent back to 1357, where he arrives outside the castle and is presumably killed by a charging knight.<\/p>\n

Chris, Kate, and Johnston safely return. Later, the team returns to the Castlegard ruins, re-examines the sarcophagus, and finds that Marek and Lady Claire lived together after the war and had three children: Christophe, Katherine, and Fran\u00e7ois.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[19],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2440","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-non-classe","first","instock","sale","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/champagne-bond500.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}