The bubbly wine's origins are less romantic than you think.
, a lavishly illustrated and wood-crated book recently released by Assouline. More than just a coffee table tome, Bernardo’s personal recollections of savoring the 100 Champagnes profiled within is illustrated with the labels of the bottles themselves plus gorgeous photography and drawings.
Although the book is a love letter to Champagne, Bernardo, who earned the title Best Sommelier in the World in 2004, includes the incredibly unromantic but true Champagne origin story in the book’s introduction, informing readers, “When English merchants, who were then the region’s principal customers, received shipments from Champagne—a still wine at the time—they added sugar in the course of transferring it from barrel to bottle, as was the fashion then, and sometimes spices too.
In addition to well-known houses such as those already mentioned or Krug, Veuve Clicquot, Salon or Charles Heidsieck, the author includes many less familiar producers such as Boizel, Alfred Gratien, Eric Rodez and Tarlant.
From first page to last, Bernardo’s homage to the finest that Champagne has to offer is a visual and literary delight. Fortunately for readers, the author doesn’t just look to the distant and possibly unobtainable past; many of the later vintages covered toward the end of the book are still in the market. Bernardo has an eye on the future as well.
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