Champagne

Champagne is basically carbonated wine. The story behind where champagne came from is a story I like to amuse people with.

It all started with a monk that was working in a monesrary . At this monestary, the monks there made wine. Wine will naturally stop it's fermentation process at around eleven to thirteen and a half percent and there is now way around this. Not knowing this, one particular monk wanted to ferment a wine that had a higher level of alcohol than regular wine. To make this kind of a wine, he had the idea that he could introduce yeast into wine and try to referment it, hopefull producing a wine with a higher level of alcohol.

What actualy happened was that the wine became carbonated rather than refermenting and producing a high alcohol wine. The result was rather tasty a new invention that was named after the region where the monestary was located. This tasty new invention was called Champagne after the Champagne region of France and was invented by a monk named Dom Perignon.