Raise a toast to an incredible 19th-century Missouri scientist when you pop that bottle of fine French bubbly on New Year’s Eve.saved the Champagne industry“His manner was enthusiastic, his face beaming with animation, his eyes sparkling, his manner eager,” a reporter once wrote of this globally celebrated scientist in 1875.
The nation’s “wine industry was in disarray,” writes Rod Phillips in his 2016 book, “French Wine: A History.” The soul of France was torn apart in the 1860s when its vineyards were invaded by a voracious pest called grape phylloxera.We drink Champagne to celebrate the holidays: Seventeen percent of all the Champagne sold in the United States is purchased in December. , the wine of victories, the wine of celebrations,” wine expert Natalie Maclean told Fox News Digital.
He captured the creatures he studied in beautiful and detailed hand-drawn images. He wrote passionately about his subjects and found splendor in creatures most people find repugnant. “I am moved to admiration and wonder as thoroughly today as in early boyhood every time I contemplate within each of these varied and fantastic caterpillars … is locked up the future butterfly,” he wrote of one study.
“Its wines, such as Hermannsberger, Starkenberger, and Black Pearl, won eight gold medals at world fairs between 1873 and 1904,” according to a 2020 report in MissouriWineCountry.com. Riley was Missouri’s first state entomologist.With wine so essential to the Missouri economy, Riley found himself at the center of the furious effort to find a solution to the Great French Wine Blight, which confounded officials and winemakers in France.
“Some scientists and officials were unable or unwilling to accept that grafting onto American vines, which were the cause of the catastrophe, was also the solution,” Phillips writes in “French Wine: A History.” The Nazis surrendered to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower at Supreme Allied Headquarters in Reims on May 8, 1945, marking the end of World War II in Europe.
The French government chose to define and then protect Champagne under a system of Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée — a name of controlled origin. Further AOC protections were adopted by the European Union in the 1990s, creating a complex list of products that can be made only in their native region.
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Thank God Hunter was able to have a champagne chaser after his lines of coke.
So what?