It was actually mackems from sunderland that did the glass. The geordies were famed for their maritime building industries and sunderland for their glass making. Nowadays one city has an MTV show the other has a Netflix show. I have zero clue what I'm on about tbh.
Edit: I wrote this purely seeing a sign for Sunderland glass museum – mainly wanted a Tyne wear Derby to take place in the replies
Whatever Merritt made was sparkling wine. Champagne was invented by Dom Perignon. All Merritt did was figure out a component, but didn't make champagne. What matters, ultimately, is who gets the credit, and who makes something that people will remember. Everyone believes Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, or that Guglielmo Marconi invented radio, but these were really developed by Nicola Tesla. Tesla, being a bit of a chump (this is what being too nice gets you), let people walk all over him, and that's why he doesn't get enough credit.
I will have to wade in here. I am a vigneron with a garagistes operation and as a a contractor I’ve sparkled well over 500000 bottles for small producers. As an upstart I read voraciously to get into the history. The exact details are slim but for me the best hypothesis is as follows. London was drinking a lot of French wine. A batch was sent over from champagne, the region not the style, which had some residual sugar in it. During the early spring it was bottled and shipped. It started fermenting again as it warmed up. Thankfully the amount of sugar was low and did not blow the bottles. So 24g of sugar/litre produces 6bar of pressure per bottle, your car tyre is just over 3 bar. So the costumers loved the fizz and wanted more. The producer knew what had happened but did not have the vessel that could reliably produce this product. Merret who was a keen observer of wine its production and remedies and a glass producer had the answer capable of producing thicker glass bottles. His paper to the Royal Society refers to refermentation as a method of refreshing wines but I don’t think it is implying sparkling wine in bottle. I stand corrected. How the match was made between the two producers I don’t know. Similarly I don’t think someone invented yoghurt or kimchi. Happy accidents.
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Like most things, the English invented
It was actually mackems from sunderland that did the glass. The geordies were famed for their maritime building industries and sunderland for their glass making. Nowadays one city has an MTV show the other has a Netflix show. I have zero clue what I'm on about tbh.
Edit: I wrote this purely seeing a sign for Sunderland glass museum – mainly wanted a Tyne wear Derby to take place in the replies
'Fuckin ell man there's bubbles in that n all!'.
Love it. 👍
True! But there’s romance in the French marketing lie.
This guy talks in anecdotes.
A hundred years from now Indians now occupying England will say they invented it
The english helped create sparkling wine, champagne is french
I'm sorry, but I prefer my champagne being like "kissing the stars…" not just having " fkin bubbles "….
Brilliant 👏
Take that France 😂
Overpriced sparkling wine
Meanwhile a clutch of Geordies are saying what a useless accent, nothing like ours :-))))))))))
Champagne is basically fizzy horsepiss
Whatever Merritt made was sparkling wine. Champagne was invented by Dom Perignon. All Merritt did was figure out a component, but didn't make champagne. What matters, ultimately, is who gets the credit, and who makes something that people will remember. Everyone believes Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, or that Guglielmo Marconi invented radio, but these were really developed by Nicola Tesla. Tesla, being a bit of a chump (this is what being too nice gets you), let people walk all over him, and that's why he doesn't get enough credit.
My grandad invented Champagne and whilst he was at it did space travel
who gives a fuck its stinkin'
I will have to wade in here. I am a vigneron with a garagistes operation and as a a contractor I’ve sparkled well over 500000 bottles for small producers. As an upstart I read voraciously to get into the history. The exact details are slim but for me the best hypothesis is as follows. London was drinking a lot of French wine. A batch was sent over from champagne, the region not the style, which had some residual sugar in it. During the early spring it was bottled and shipped. It started fermenting again as it warmed up. Thankfully the amount of sugar was low and did not blow the bottles. So 24g of sugar/litre produces 6bar of pressure per bottle, your car tyre is just over 3 bar. So the costumers loved the fizz and wanted more. The producer knew what had happened but did not have the vessel that could reliably produce this product. Merret who was a keen observer of wine its production and remedies and a glass producer had the answer capable of producing thicker glass bottles. His paper to the Royal Society refers to refermentation as a method of refreshing wines but I don’t think it is implying sparkling wine in bottle. I stand corrected. How the match was made between the two producers I don’t know. Similarly I don’t think someone invented yoghurt or kimchi. Happy accidents.