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August, 1956

Champagne, that tickly tipple, was first discovered through a fluke. One fine day the good Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk of curious bent, sealed up a bottle of ordinary white wine with a wooden cork instead of the customary corky-type cork. He then discovered that by thus preventing the escape of gas, a second fermentation popped into the proceedings -- right in the jug. Since then, the world's most discerning wine-bibbers have poured the golden libation from every sized bottle imaginable. Th...