Bubbles story by comic balloons
Bubbles are to Champagne what balloons are to cartoons!
So, this week, here is an original comic strips recounting the epic of Champagne Wine through twenty centuries of an extraordinary and exciting story; how a well deserved fame was progressively acquired over the years, starting from the 17thcentury when it gradually made its way into the European courts, up to our time where it stands as a symbol of joy and celebration.
So, this week, here is an original comic strips recounting the epic of Champagne Wine through twenty centuries of an extraordinary and exciting story; how a well deserved fame was progressively acquired over the years, starting from the 17thcentury when it gradually made its way into the European courts, up to our time where it stands as a symbol of joy and celebration.
At the origin of this album was the discovery in 2010 in a wreck at bottom of Baltic waters, of a batch of bottles of Champagne dating back from the second quarter of the 19thcentury and perfectly preserved. This discovery was used by Daniel Lorson, Jean Marie Cuzin and Eric Arnaud as a vital lead to trace back the evolution of vineyards of this rich region via a recall of the universal dimension now reached by Champagne. Not quite a fictionalized account, but rather a documented story of this wine that makes so many heads turn dizzy during yearly festive seasons.
Then follows the detail of all the stories related to this soil, for instance how Dom Pérignon helped to a better knowledge of wine fermentation, by replacing the hemp-covered, tallow-greased wooden stopper by a cork with beeswax casting ensuring perfect tightness… quoting also names of the great families, those real dynasties who quench the thirst of high-placed of this world: Veuve Cliquot, Joseph Perrier, Perrier-Jouët, Piper-Heidsieck, Taittinger, Laurent-Perrier, Mumm, Krug, Charles Heidsieck, Boizel, Bollinger… followed by the story of phylloxera pest that, at dawn of the 20thcentury, devastated hundreds of thousands of vinestocks, and ending by the tensions about vintage ground delimitations and those due to an increasingly professionalized trade…
Then follows the detail of all the stories related to this soil, for instance how Dom Pérignon helped to a better knowledge of wine fermentation, by replacing the hemp-covered, tallow-greased wooden stopper by a cork with beeswax casting ensuring perfect tightness… quoting also names of the great families, those real dynasties who quench the thirst of high-placed of this world: Veuve Cliquot, Joseph Perrier, Perrier-Jouët, Piper-Heidsieck, Taittinger, Laurent-Perrier, Mumm, Krug, Charles Heidsieck, Boizel, Bollinger… followed by the story of phylloxera pest that, at dawn of the 20thcentury, devastated hundreds of thousands of vinestocks, and ending by the tensions about vintage ground delimitations and those due to an increasingly professionalized trade…
That is the whole of the history of a Wine and its vineyards so different from the others, recounted with an abondance of details in an educational album to remind us of a country soil and the strong commitment of its people to their ground-land and their environment.
Just the right idea for a New Year gift!
