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Show 4T Tte Salt Lake Tribune Sunday, February 12, 1984 Roger that he and his friends more than 20,000 cases while he was prime minister. Churchill even named his favorite race horse after Pol Roger. Youll be told that 1982 is considered perhaps the best year for champagne in this century, that there are 13,000 growers of grapes in Champagne, 145 shippers, and 18 brands that produce about 80 percent of all the champagne in the recon-sumn- Champagne from Epemay, France Back to the roots of the bubbly by Michael Carlton Denver Post Writer - All the EPERNAY, France stars are sparkling tonight in this tidy corner of France, thanks to Dom Perignon and his happy band of Benedictine monks who taught the world how to exploit the natural effervescence of the Champagne region's wine. Anyone who has had even one glass of champagne must be at least a little curious about the place where it was first produced. And, now that Americans have rediscovered champagne, perhaps it is time to visit the homeland of our most festive drink. That homeland is a lovely chunk of real estate stretching, roughly, between Epernay and Reims, the principal centers of the champagne industry. There are 85,000 acres in the Champagne region, about 62,000 of those planted with the noble stocks": the Pinot noir, Pinot meun-an- d Chardonnay grapes that are used to make champagne. Any visit to Champagne should naturally begin with a visit to the Hautvillers Abbey, where Dom Perignon discovered how to keep the sparkle inside the bottle. He is buried there, with a modest monument saluting the man who has brought so much joy (and so many hangovers) to the hedonists of the world. After this pilgrimage, it is time to visit one of the vast champagne cellars of the region, many of which give guided tours, sometimes followed by a sampling of the bubbly. Moet L Chandon in Epernay has one of the largest cellars, a massive chalk cave stretching for more than 18 miles and holding 54 million bottles, all resting at 51 degrees, and all bathing in a humidity of 80 percent the perfect conditions for devel ment, when the neck of the champagne bottle is dipped into a freezing solution and a small block of ice is formed, containing the deposit of silt in the bottle. With a loud pop it shoots out of the bottle, a tight cork is then inserted, and the finished champagne is sent back to age a few years before you open it for Aunt Hatties birthday party. But you learn more than just the technical side of champagne. You also discover some of its romance. You learn that champagne was so prized that many of the worlds famous, including Pope Leon X, Henry VIII of England and Henri IV of France all owned vineyards in the region; and that Marie Antoinette was such a devotee of champagne that the traditional saucer-shape- d glass was designed in imitation of her breasts. You will be told that Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, said that champagne was the oping fine champagne. On a tour you will learn much about the sparkling wine: How the vines flower in late May and the grapes are harvested exactly 100 d by mindays later, all ers from Lorraine. You will hear about pressing (each press takes 8,800 pounds of grapes to produce 596 gallons of juice), and the first fermentation and about the cuvee, the blend of juices from different vineyards that gives each brand of champagne its uniqueness. You will be taken into the deep caves to see the remuage, the process by which a specialist shakes the bottle gently, gives it a turn through 45 degrees and progressively increases the tilt, until the bottle is nearly vertical. These specialists are the highest paid of all champagne workers, and perhaps the hardest working, turning as many as 60,000 bottles each day. 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KONA KAUAI MAUI WAIKIKI only wine that left a woman still beautiful; and that the practice of drinking champagne from a lady's slipper began with King Edward VII of England. While enjoying a ballet at Covent Garden he would drink champagne from a favorite ballerinas slipper a clear message that he would like to see more of her. The custom of christening ships with a bottle of champagne, you are told, harks back to Roman times when they appeased the gods by pouring libations into the harbor before major voyages. You learn how much Napoleon loved champagne (one of his famous hats is on display at Moet), and that Winston Churchill so desired the product of neighboring bottler Pol number of champagne cellars in the indiyou will discover the region vidual characteristics of each; that champagne from one cellar is often better than vintage to use champagne at another, and, the words of Christian Pol Roger, that in champagne, like playing a violin, its not that it is not good, it is just that it must be perfect." As you drive from cellar to cellar (about 30 are open to the public; some by appointment only), you will also discover the very real beauty of See Page T-- Column 3 23, 1984 Bountiful, Utah 84010 3 (901) Call Toll Fra anwttara In Utah 295-944- For Brochure Write or Pltone MOOXTAIN Win TtC3 AtBKY 163 Herbert Ave., S L C., UT. S41 1 1 532-364- 8 or 487-385- 5 V: J |
