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316 Years Ago Today Dom Pérignon Invented Champagne…or Did He?

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2009-8-04 8:02am

From wired: “1693: Champagne is said to have been invented on this day by Dom Pierre Pérignon, a French monk. It almost certainly isn’t true. Because Dom Pérignon lived at the Benedictine abbey in Hautvillers at the time of his “invention,” the village in France’s Champagne region, not far from Èpernay, is generally regarded as the birthplace [...]