Amazing facts about champagne. You may not have known this yet.
Each bottle of champagne has 6 atmospheres. It's about pressure. Indeed, the pressure in a bottle of champagne at room temperature is equal to the pressure in the tire of a red London bus, or about 6.3 kilograms per square centimeter.
Champagne glasses are always not only washed, but also rubbed with a towel. For what? Each bottle of champagne contains nearly 49 million bubbles. In the glass, they form around the smallest irregularities on the walls.
Therefore, before serving champagne, the glasses are carefully rubbed with a cotton towel, leaving microscopic particles of cellulose on the walls.
Interestingly, initially, bubbles in champagne were considered an undesirable side effect of fermentation, and it was only in the second half of the 17th century that they began to appear on purpose.
The most expensive champagne in the world - "Shipwrecked 1907 Heidsieck", which is more than a hundred years old and mined... from the depths of the sea.
Unique bottles of sparkling wine were discovered by divers in 1997 on a sunken ship transporting wine (attention!) For our royal family to Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
A total of 200 bottles were found then, each of which now costs from $ 275,000.
You probably didn't know that there are no standard champagne bottles. Of course, there is a form. However, the displacement or volumes can be quite varied.
In the modern world, the volume of champagne bottles varies from 200 ml to 30 liters. Bottles of three liters or more are always named after biblical characters. Goliath, Samson. Something like that.
The largest commercially produced bottle for champagne is called Midas, it can hold as much as 30 liters of the drink.
Imagine it is the equivalent of forty standard bottles! This champagne is made by the house "Armand de Brignac".
But bottles are also not only voluminous, but also tall. The world's tallest bottle of champagne was made in 1965 by Piper-Heidsieck.
She stood 1m 82cm and was intended to celebrate the Academy Awards for actor Rex Harrison for her role in My Fair Lady.
And now a few facts about the famous politician from Great Britain.
Winston Churchill was a great lover of all kinds of alcohol.
And especially for him, the Pol Roger company produced champagne in bottles with a certain volume... in 0.6 liters, otherwise called as "imperial pint".
Ice champagne was always served by the butlers at exactly 11 am when Churchill woke up. Instead of coffee or English morning tea.
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