Seamus Dever Instagram – Here are 10 things you didn’t know about sparkling wine.
1. The most popular sparkling wine is Champagne, which can only be made in the Champagne region of France. But did you know that there are 22 other sparkling wine regions in France?
2. Sparkling wine was invented in England in 1662 by scientist Christopher Merrit!
3. Dom Perignon, credited with creating Champagne, actually added the big indentation (called a “punt”) which stopped bottles from exploding!
4. In France, Champagne can only be made from 3 “main” grapes! However there are 4 others that can actually be used as well.
5. In Italy, Prosecco and can be made from any of 10 different grapes!
6. In the US, you can make it from whatever the grapes you want, but you can’t call by the name of another appellation.
7. In Spain, Cava is made by the same method as Champagne, where bottles are aged in caves (cavas).
8. The original glass was a rounded “coupe” and not the flute that is commonly used today.
9. At one point Zane Lamprey (that’s me) had the world record for sabering open 31 bottles of Champagne in under one minute!
10. One of the owners of Pasosecco, a new Prosecco-style sparkling wine made in Paso Robles, CA is Seamus Dever, that guy from the TN show Castle (among many other shows)! | Posted on 30/Jan/2024 06:54:29
