ENGLISH FIZZ|CW


“...To the Mall and the Park where we love till ’tis dark, Then sparkling Champaign puts an end to their reign; It quickly recovers poor languishing lovers...”


The Man of the Mode, by Sir George Etherege, 1676


A French document of 1718 states that Champagne had made its first appearance about 20 years earlier, around 1698 or so. But his salute from Restoration comedy dramatist Sir George Etherege predates this by more than 20 years, so perhaps England can claim to have ‘invented’ the famous bubbly


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