The Night They Invented Champagne
Drinking the Stars ...
Once I was asked what wine I would want if I were stranded on an island. My answer was then, and still would be, champagne. In this, my last post of 2022, I’m not reviewing a book. Instead, I’m telling you a story!

Once upon a time, there was a young, Benedictine monk named Dom Pierre Pérignon. Dom Pérignon was th…
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