Recent discoveries have shown that vines were cultivated in Champagne as early as the first century.
€13,184
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), France Champagne, lithographic poster, 1891, 57 x 76.5 cm/22.44 x 30.12 in.
Paris, Salle Favart, April 8, 2022. Ader OVV. M. Romand.
The Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Pérignon (1638-1715) invented the method of making champagne. As a precursor, he discovered that different wines could complement each other and began putting much thought into carefully blending them. In 1700, a special bottle in thick, strong glass was developed, allowing the little bubbles, which were enjoyed so much by the aristocracy, to remain trapped inside instead of escaping into the atmosphere, as they did from barrels. The consumption of champagne by elites helped to foster its image as a luxury wine. The rest is history: the first merchants set themselves up in Reims, Épernay and Aÿ, and numerous innovations, such as better use of sugar and cooling to block the sediments, gradually made effervescence easier to control.
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€15,100
Magnum of Krug Collection 1959 with wooden case.
Rambouillet, March 22, 2022. Steffen’s Enchères Rambouillet OVV.
€7,500
Six magnums of Rosé Dom Pérignon, 1982, wooden case.
Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 29, 2018. Yann Le Mouel OVV. M. de Montigny.
€3,000
Enameled sheet metal plate advertisement made for Mercier, 28.8 x 34.7 cm/11.34 x 13.66 in.
Épernay, May 18, 2019. Enchères Champagne OVV.
€12,160
Alfons Mucha (1860-1939), Champagne Ruinart, 1896, two-sheet chromolithography, printer-publisher F. Champenois, 174 x 59 cm/68.50 x 23.22 in.
Paris, Salle Favart, May 24, 2022. Ader OVV. M. Weill.
€34,500
Jean Puiforcat (1897-1945), silver champagne bucket with rosewood handles, h. 22 cm/8.66 in., gross weight 2,714 g/95.73 oz.
Paris, Hôtel Drouot, April 22, 2022. Kâ-Mondo OVV. Cabinet Artlys Patrimoine.
€21,736
Methuselah of Rosé Gold Dom Pérignon champagne, 2000.
Cannes, June 22, 2018. Pichon & Noudel-Deniau OVV. M. de Clouet.
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