We are only a bubble that rises and bursts! It is the time of the baroque, the time of vanitas pictures with skulls, withered flowers and rising bubbles, which are clear in their message: man is transient! Nothing remains. But, instead of breaking down at this insight, this epoch throws itself into a frenzy of the senses. At the time of the Baroque - the word comes from «barroco», the term for a not quite round pearl - Dom Pérignon (1638 - 1715), a contemporary of Louis XIV, also lived.
Champagne is therefore the drink of drinks, the king of wines. Wine in its highest perfection, because it possesses all its advantages without a single one of its faults. Its production is all the more complex because champagne has to be cared for on a daily basis: Foaming, storing, turning, shaking, remixing. All of this makes champagne a perfect product of art. And ironically, its bubbles rise for the first time in the very century when Newton established the law of gravity.
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