“In victory, you deserve Champagne; in defeat, you need it.” - Napoleon Bonaparte.

@electric_girl

10 ай бұрын

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I lived in a French community for nine years and got to know French religious folk, diplomats, and business people fairly well. One pleasant surprise was to see how they enjoyed champagne not just on special occasions, but also as an aperitif before a normal dinner, both out at restaurants and at home. A fine custom worthy of imitation by us Americans!

@kingpest13

7 ай бұрын

Bunch of drunks 😂

I'm laughing hysterically! I used to work at a now-defunct winery here in PA, outside of Lancaster, and we tried to make sparkling wine one season. Vin du Diable, indeed! "IS SOMEBODY SHOOTING SOMEONE IN THE CELLAR?!" Ah, well. Winemaking is a mix of science and art, and always an experiment. Our experiment failed in a dramatically awesome way.

@lightbox617

11 ай бұрын

One of my sons decided to buy a beer making kit. I believe the volume was about 15 gallons in three 5 gallon glass bottles. Put it together, ferment with an airlock then plug it up to "age" for a few weeks. He put the bottles in a dark closest and went off to school. After two weeks, I began to hear, one by one, muffled explosions' every night or so to which I had to respond with a broom, mop and bucket. Not on ever made it

@Nova_Needle

11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that a modern day commercial winery would experience bottle bombs like that. As a long time home wine and mead maker, carbonation is a (relatively) simple process of calculating priming sugar for the yeast to ferment, and using non-fermentable sugars for desired residual sweetness. Using proper bottles is also key. Champagne bottles are thick and have big flared corks that still have to be held down with wire for storage. Home makers like me primarily use rated flip top bottles, or beer bottles with a cap press.

@notahotshot

11 ай бұрын

​@@Nova_Needleit was in 1754.

@OldWines

11 ай бұрын

Did you work for Dr Richard Carey?

Lance, wearing a fancy vest and a fancy tie for this episode was a smooth move.

Great episode! Thanks so much. This touches on a subject which would be worthy of an entire episode itself. Read "The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It" by Tilar J. Mazzeo The widow was an amazing woman whose life ought to be celebrated in feminist studies curriculum. She marries a man whose wealth comes from textiles. Early in their marriage he dabbles in winemaking - and then he dies, leaving her to fend for herself in this winemaking business for which she has no background. She innovates the business and technique of making champagne with several landmark improvements, against a background of Napoleon and his troops marauding one way, and Russian troops crossing westward. In those days champagne was sold 'wholesale', that is, big containers to sites that would sell it in smaller quantities. She creates a label, one that you know today, and thus creates a brand. Departing her estate, Russian officers invented the method of opening a champagne bottle with their swords. The Widow was an amazing woman who deserves to be remembered.

When touring Western Europe as a teenager I spent a week in Champagne and experienced my first Champagne hangover. Good Times. 👍🏼👍🏼

How did you know I've been craving Champagne for a few weeks now? This video is the sign I've been waiting for 🙂

A missed footnote but significant non-the-less: It has long been custom to present the winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a magnum of Champagne but the traditon of shaking it and spraying the crowd was started in 1967 by none other than the great Dan Gurney, and it is a tradtion that spread to virtually all of motorsports to this day.

Another great video: A suggestion to go along with this is the different methods of making sparkling wines. I worked as a Product Consultant(know it all, or in some cases think they do, beverage alcohol snobs) for 20 years at the LCBO (Liquor Control Board Ontario) We had a lot of customers who did not know much about beverage alcohol and that was ok. That was one of the reasons for my position, customer education. It was not uncommon for someone to come in and ask for a "good" bottle of Champagne. So I would show them something usually starting at about the $75CAD. They would look horrified and ask don't you have anything cheaper from Spain or Italy. I would say I have sparkling wines from there, but not Champagnes. I would often get the deer in the headlight look as I tried to explain the differences in name and sometimes production method. Mind you some said at the end, ok I will take the Italian Champagne. Mind you I did have some that were fascinated and wanted to learn more. Being a believer in local I always tried to push the local Ontario sparklers both traditional and charmat. I use to say, Ontario Sparkling wines can out champagne Champagne and for a lot less. Thank you again. Another great video. I find your delivery is just as important as the information. Great stuff.

Cheers to you too THG for being an awesome storyteller

Travel tip from someone who once lived in France: If you want to get ripped off to an embarrassing degree, make sure to go to a tasting or buy your bottles in Champagne itself. You will be so overcharged that when you see how much the stuff costs in any French supermarket 30 minutes away in any direction, you will only wonder how much you'd been laughed at.

@goosenotmaverick1156

11 ай бұрын

That's the best travel tip I've ever read. Don't think I'll ever go to France to specifically go to France, maybe if I end up in Europe stop for a day or two, but there are so many other places I'd go first haha. But that was a hilariously put tip. "you'll only wonder how much you've been laughed at" really got me. Tourist traps. Lol

@narmale

11 ай бұрын

Probably will just be wine with co2 nozzle in the back repackaging it for the stupid Americans 😂😂😂

@texlad04

11 ай бұрын

Then you come to a state like Texas where the multi-level distribution system ensures that the price is even higher. I've seen Delamotte NV for as much as 200 in a restaurant in Houston.

@arkady714

11 ай бұрын

@@goosenotmaverick1156 You misunderstand. I wasn't talking about France. I was talking about buying bottles in Champagne. The region itself is beyond stunning and historical, especially in summer. See the cathedral in Reims. It is a miracle of architecture and design. Start in Paris, travel east to Reims then on to Metz. Get there for the 14th of July and join the picnics and fireworks of Bastille Day. I lived in France because it's brilliant. If you go to Europe without visiting France it will be one of the major mistakes of your life.

@arkady714

11 ай бұрын

@@texlad04 LOL! I believe it! In France, in any supermarket in any town, even in Reims itself, champagne is reasonably priced. Just avoid the shops outside the cathedral and / or buying from the vineyards themselves. (Most don't do tours or tastings anyway.)

Good morning History Guy and everyone watching. Have a great weekend. 🍇🍷🥂

Cheers to you THG for giving us a sparkling piece of forgotten history.

I am highly qualified in the production of wine and now live in Limoux in the Aude region of southern France and it is now commonly recognised that sparkling wine was first made at the Abbey of St. Hilaire very close to Limoux where excellent sparkling wines are still made.

@leonag2394

11 ай бұрын

I've visited Limoux a couple of times and greatly enjoyed the Blanquette de Limoux. Sadly, we can't buy it in Ottawa, Ontario.

@cavramau

10 ай бұрын

​@@leonag2394online purchase.

Love that toast of Lili Bollinger. You didn't mention Veuve (Widow) Cliquot who at age 32 was widowed, and took over her late husband's winery, ending up being the second largest Champagne producer. She kept a firm control over her company , and as she aged became obese as well as taking mny lovers. Quite a character!

Champagne for our 17th anniversary today. Thank you!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

11 ай бұрын

Happy anniversary!

@davidhowe6905

11 ай бұрын

Congratulations! 🍾Champagne for me too this evening, as my great niece was born this morning (not that I usually need an excuse!)

Definitely a bubble, piece of history. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise. And hello from Detroit, Michigan.

"She keeps Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet/ 'let them eat cake', she says, just like Marie Antoinette....." Queen

A toast, to The History Guy🍾🥂

One of the Star Trek films starts with a bottle of Dom Perignon smashing against the hull of the Enterprise. The whole sequence was really well done.

I am fond of Cava (sparkling wine from Spain) that my brother and sister-in-law introduced us to when we visited them in Catalonia.

One of the best parties I was ever at I had quite a lot of champagne. I was the best man at a wedding of a very good friend, and I delivered my toast; in three languages, English, Latvian and Polish; while rip-roaring drunk.

I drank a few bottles of sparkling wine when I was stationed in Sardinia, just a few. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 😁

@goosenotmaverick1156

11 ай бұрын

"a couple beers, officer" 😂😂😂

I've always been tickled by the fact that drinking to drunkenness is a sin, but Abbies are almost always funded by producing alcohol. And not just small bier or wine meant for mixing with water, but high alcohol wines, port, brandy and mead. 😂

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

Hmm, which came first, the trans-substantiation myth of wine being symbolically transformed into Christ's blood, or monks and Abbots making wine (or harder spirits) and inventing a religious justification for its use? (PS, the plural of Abbey is probably Abbeys, not Abbies).

@goosenotmaverick1156

11 ай бұрын

​@@goodun2974I'm going with the Monks. Just a guess but I figured that's more likely. PS what a wonderfully friendly correction. More of the internet should be like you.

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

@@goosenotmaverick1156 , I try to be helpful, not authoritative (even though incorrect spelling or word choices is one of my pet peeves).

@goosenotmaverick1156

11 ай бұрын

@@goodun2974 nothing drives me up a wall like someone using the wrong their, there and they're lol so I'm with ya.

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

@@goosenotmaverick1156 , A lot of people get themselves into trouble when they attempt to use contractions in their comments, because they might say or write can't and it translates to "can"; or unable becomes "able", and that sort of thing, which ends up expressing the exact opposite of what the person meant to say or write. By the way, KZread recentmu changed how their editing software works, and so if I post a comment and read it immediately thereafter and find a mistake or a spelling error or something that I didn't write clearly enough, I have to wait a few hours to go back and fix it because the software won't let me right back in to do it immediately. I find this extremely annoying.

*Fun Fact:* _Reims_ is a strange-looking word, even by French standards. It looks like it might be some sort of loan word from the Dutch or German tribes to the north and east. But according to Wikipedia, the name's pure Latin, coming from the accusative case of the name of the Remi tribe that lived there. The modern French pronounce it to rhyme with the American word _dance,_ or the English word _pants._ (Except, of course, that the _an_ gets nasalised, like the Portuguese letter _ã.)_

@garywagner2466

11 ай бұрын

Lance is famous for mispronouncing words, but Reims is notoriously difficult. Can’t blame him too much.

@geronimus-prime

11 ай бұрын

​@@garywagner2466 No slight to Lance intended. I only shared because the pronunciation threw me the first time I heard it. I can only assume the final _s_ gets voiced to distinguish the city's name from the word for _"kidneys."_

I appreciate you, thank you for making content.

And now, for something completely different, an episode on the finest Australian fighting wines.

Hey Y'all 👋 I just got out of the pool. I guess that means I'm Moet! Waka Waka 🤣

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

Jokes such as yours are best kept "in a pretty cabinet...."

Excellent episode!

English sparkling wine is exceptional nowadays, a nice return to our early modern past.

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

Perhaps Lance should do a history of soda, known in some places as "pop", next.

@deelee4639

11 ай бұрын

​@@goodun2974pop, is just slang foe the sound some bottles made in the west that contained soda. Not everyone had a soda fountain to-go down to. Lol. So pop is just slang . And I use it!

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

@@deelee4639 , here in the Northeast we call it "soda".

@deelee4639

11 ай бұрын

@@goodun2974 did u read my history lesson? For those who didn't have a soda fountain - they got their soda in bottles. And those folks called it POP because the sound it made when they opened the bottles. So if ur great grandma went down to the soda fountain- u most likely gonna call it soda, if great Grammy got her soda in a bottle -she moat likely started calling it POP . Let's just team up against those weirdos who call everything COKE

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

@@deelee4639 , I wasn't asking about why you call a carbonated beverage " pop", I am interested in the history of who/ when mankind first started making carbonated non-alcoholic beverages and how it became a thing, whether dispensed from a soda-jerk fountain or bottled for distribution.

Any excuse to toast is a good reason for Champagne ! Thanks.

Thanks for clearing up misconceptions I have had concerning Champagne. Learned a lot from this one. Again. !!!

Most informative, thank you.

I am coincidentally working my way through a bottle of Veuve Clicquot as I watch this. Life, Love and Laughter - Cheers!

Great episode and most enlightening! Well done, Sir!

And now I want a glass of champagne 😊

Just wanted to say I love your channel. Don’t ever stop homme

Cheers to you as well!

"Reims" is pronounced, approximately, "reams". However, it should be said in a very shortened syllable. That is in English, in French it is different, approximately "rance" also very shortened. On wine related subjects, it might be tempting to look at the English influence on popularizing port wine(porto)from Portugal and sherry wine(xérès)from Spain.

@thomaslienert4225

11 ай бұрын

And veuve does not sound like a barking dog.

@garywagner2466

11 ай бұрын

No, Reims is not pronounced “reams.” Nor is it pronounced “Ree-ems.” A French word should be pronounced as a French person would say it, but this one is particularly challenging. We have trouble with the ‘R’ sound and the unusual ‘S’ at the end, which is actually pronounced this time.

@nedludd7622

11 ай бұрын

@@garywagner2466 Geez, I said that was the English pronunciation. It is spelled "Rheims" in English. Check a pronunciation site in both languages that my approximations are right. Do you speak French? How do you pronounce "Lyon" in French or "Lyons" in English?

@garywagner2466

11 ай бұрын

@@nedludd7622 a French word doesn’t have “an English pronunciation” or English spelling. The French pronunciation and spelling are the correct ones. Everything else is made up.

Salud History Guy, great episode.

I am reminded of a toast from an episode of the old TV series Thriller: "Champagne for our real friends; real pain for our sham friends".

Dom Pérignon reportedly said, “Come Quickly I am Tasting the Stars!”. Even if not true, it is a great Eureka moment myth… ; )

@TheHistoryGuyChannel

11 ай бұрын

That legend seems to have originated in an advertisement a century after his death.

@LouisHansell

11 ай бұрын

Quite correct. Those apocryphal stories are myths that capture important ideas. We have our own, such as "I cannot lie, I did chop down the cherry tree". Doesn't matter that it actually was said, the myth captures the belief. In the next century it was 'Honest Abe'. Other cultures have their own myths, and whether that are factually correct or not is besides the point that they illustrate. So let a French monk taste the stars!

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

​@@LouisHansell , a libation of the products of fermentation oft gives rise to flights of the imagination!

@LouisHansell

11 ай бұрын

@@goodun2974 A toast!

@CGM_68

11 ай бұрын

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel perhaps living a quarter of a century in Eastern France has affected my sensivity, but anyone pronouncing Reims other than \ʁɛ̃s\ grates a little on the ear. The German ʁaɪ̯ms is possibly worse than the US Reemz, but only slightly. In the UK we have reams of paper, but where wine is concerned it's à la manière française!

A very nice story of the king of sparkling wines.

THG has a bubbly personality.

It's very grrm isn't it? Endeavouring to stabilise wines yet he became legendary for his supposed creation of sparkling wine. I love history so much

Just posted to my Facebook and LinkedIn. Great information. Cheers thank you so much. I can use this in arguments going forward.

I got a good laugh out of that bit at the end. Prost!

You can,see,taste and smell wine. Clinking glasses unites all of the senses.

So surprised that you never mentioned my (French) mother's favorite champagne, Veuve Cliquot. I was looking forward to hearing all about her! My father's favorite was Dom Pérignon.

Thank you THG for always remembering us about the good side of life.

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!

And so, just which night was the night they invented champagne? Damn you, History Guy, for sticking it in my head.

@nomadmarauder-dw9re

11 ай бұрын

at least it isn't The Girl From Imp...oh, Hell.

The ending of this episode reminds me of a quote attributed to W. C. Fields. I'll paraphrase (since I don't remember the exact wording): I always keep with me, upon my person, a quantity of stimulant (gin), in case I should see a snake, which, fortunately, I also keep with me." Thanks for the lesson, H. G.

0:45 Awww, c'mon man! A video on Champagne and you're drinking an Italian sparkler???? LOL Meant in good humor. Great video, thanks for putting it together!

@garywagner2466

11 ай бұрын

Prosecco is the poor man’s champagne. Those bow ties are expensive.

Cheers good sir

Not sure about the pronunciation of Riems there. Soldiers in the world wars called it Reams however it's most accurately pronounced more like Roms, with a good gutteral growl and extended O sound, and some decent accent dialed in.

Thank THG🎀 👍 Old Shoe🇺🇸

Superb

delightful episode. I discovered a wonderful Argentinian extra brute of which I have grown very fond. I have also discovered a very successful champagne bottle re-sealer, with a spring loaded valve and steel set of flanges which hold it in place around the lip of the bottle. These are pretty commonly available at your liquor store. this allows us to open a bottle of our favorite sparkling wine and seal it back up so you can just have a glass with a particular meal and not waste a whole bottle unless you intend to sit down and drink the whole thing perhaps by yourself. If you do you will definitely stagger off to bed which may not be the wisest idea. you have inspired me this evening, Lance, since I have a bottle in this condition right now I am going to use it with dinner tonight! Cheers!

Funny your episode on Champagne is opened with you opening a bottle of Prosecco.

Cheers to being thirsty. Most educational. Thank you good sir.

I ordered my wife and her friend a bottle last night for them to share at dinner in Maui. Coincidentally this video was suggested this morning when I opened my iPad.

Going to a wine tasting tomorrow at a wine bar. I may have to play this video for them.

Alcohol put me through college, my mother owned a bar. After helping clean the place a few times I am a "non-drinker" by choice. No religion involved. But now I am going to go buy some sparking wine and give it a try!

I'm in my 60s now, and when I was a kid growing up, my parents drank some but didn't encourage me to so I never really developed the habit. But one thing I DID get to taste was champagne on new years so there is that.

I buy the small single serving glasses of it for my French 75s quite often.

I began studying champagne 🥂 in the 90s! I learned that in France in the region of champagne 🥂 they refuse too allow any of places outside of champagne to call their champagne called champagne. Money is champagne yet it also says wine!

I love champagne! I cannot decide which brand is my favorite but I always know that if there's champagne being drunk, things get considerably louder, and very quickly. Viva la Champagne!

Aw, man, how interesting! The history of alcohol is supremely interesting to me. There's so much of it!

I was priveledged to make a tour of the Frixenet winery outside of Barcelona. Frixenet Codorn Negro is my sparkling wine of choice. Always quality and less than $15 a bottle. True, it is now made in stainless steel vats and the bottle, still method champignon and bottles are rotated by machines but it is made with care. If this is too dry for you, I suggest an Italian Prosecco. Not too sweet but not as dry as Frixenet

Cheers! 🍷

I’ve decided to keep Mumm 😂

I had to laugh at the quote at the end.

Well presented! Informative! Entertaining! And, coming from The Beer World, we are all friends in fermentation!

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

One day we may all be judged by how we have treated the yeast among us....🤔😉

Hey History Guy 🤓and Classmates 👋today is National Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍪 Day. So take the opportunity to enjoy a few for yourselves and a few for me!Have a great weekend and watch out for the 🥛. It does a body good 👍

Best video since the one about jeeps 😇

_Gigi_ would never have attained its popularity as a musical w/o "The Night They Invented Champagne."

Med School Students Put Back On Focus Atleast, Again Since Dawn..

@ashergoney

11 ай бұрын

30.5 Litres Of Total Alcohol consumed Since June 20th 2023 at age 40plus .. Hoves Of Horses To Strike The Right Note For All Times.. No US Army Personnel Were Available Since April 2001 onwards, And Wine Boss Dosen't Want To Deal With Rest Or Russians Especially.. !! No Such People As Romans In The Region Better Known As TYR.. Any Luck , Fresh Out Of Since All Plum Out Of Ideas To Fast Forward.. since April 2001 onwards

As THG has documented, champagne led to the invention of refrigeration at Apalachicola, FL.

I came in expecting a simple history and came out realizing everything I've been told previously about champagne was a lie.

Napoleon said it is great with Champagne after a victory, and a must after losing a battle!

And here I thought that Champagne was developed by some drunken monks in the Middle Ages (much earlier). Thanks for the education.

Excellent as always. On Sunday afternoons, you'll find my wife & I on the deck enjoying a bottle of bubbly. At the end ow WW I, France inserted a clause in Article 275 of the Treaty of Versailles. Basically it said that only sparkling wine from Champagne could be called champagne. Trouble is, the US didn't ratify the treaty. Hence the only champagne you can get is from Champagne OR from Cook's and Korbel, from California.

@goodun2974

11 ай бұрын

" Tiny bubbles/ in the wine/ makes you feel happy/ makes you feel fine...." Don Ho

@johngregg5735

11 ай бұрын

@@goodun2974 *HO HO HO - *Santa Clause

Here in Spain sparkling wine is called Cava.

@fireman_spock669

11 ай бұрын

In Brazil we call it vinho espumante

I mainly drink prosecco but love champagne.

Some time ago, I was told that only one other region is allowed to call its sparkling wine "champagne." Evidently, during a particularly terrible French drought, the wine makers of the area went looking for places with the same terroir as that of Northern France. And they found same style if soil in the area around the California Central Valley city of Modesto.

I never met a flute of sparkling wine/champagne I didn’t like. Although, some are better than others, and often dependent on its vintage.

Champagne papi

I want to know where you got the cool cut glass wine glass at the beginning of this.

I'm French, but prefer to pronounce "Champagne" in English like Zap Brannigan from Futurama.

Nearly forty years ago, I habituated a shop in The King's Road, Chelsea called Bouzy Rouge, named for the red, still wine from the eponymous city in Champagne. An off-track wine but still important. Still Champagne, called Coteaux Champenoise is notably rare in the States but not so in Europe. Your saluting bottle is not Champagne, sir. LaMarca is a Prosecco from Italy... (tut tut) Itemising Christopher Merritt, however put you back in my good graces. Cheers.

Champagne once a year, new year eve.

Kewl new knowledge! Thanks for setting us straight.

Tiny bubbles!

Has anyone else noticed that Our HI Guy 🤓 has been doing a few boozy topics as of late. 🥂

@goosenotmaverick1156

11 ай бұрын

Next up on THG; a history of cannabis 😂

@constipatedinsincity4424

11 ай бұрын

@@goosenotmaverick1156 I'll smoke 🚬 to that!

This was a particularly effervescent reading from the history guy......

Tiny bubbles, . . .in my wine . . .

I can't afford 'Premium' Champagne as a regular drink, and since most mid-level sparkling wines were just still wine that had been artifically carbonated, I bought a 'Home Carbonater' and turn my favorites into 'Poor Man's Champagne'...😋

cheers.

Pops a bottle of Prosecco! Lol ! Otherwise a very interesting and informative video!