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 truly the drink of drinks, the king of wines. It is wine in its highest perfection, possessing all its virtues without a single one of its flaws. Its production is all the more elaborate, as champagne requires daily care: foaming, aging, turning, riddling, and re-mixing. All of this makes champagne a perfected work of art. And ironically, its bubbles first appeared in the very century when Newton established the law of gravity.
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