Blanquette de Limoux
Blanquette de Limoux is the name given to a number of sparkling wines from the Languedoc, in France.
Sparkling Wine
Blanquette de Limoux is probably the oldest known sparkling wine in France.
According to a text at a local abbey, Livy praised the wines from Limoux, which were not sparkling wines at the time.[1]
Benedictine Monks
Benedictine monks of the abbey of Saint Hilaire found out how to make sparkling wine from white wine.
Dom Pérignon
Dom Pérignon brought back the method of making sparkling wines to his abbey in Champagne, at the end of the 16th century.
He started to experiment with it in the vineyards of the abbey.
Blanquette De Limoux Media
Bottles of Blanquette de Limoux
The Limoux area describes itself as the oldest sparkling wine area of the world. This Crémant de Limoux has been named after the year the first sparkling wines were mentioned – 1531.
Vignoble de Limoux
Winemaking cooperative Sieur d'Arques, the largest winery in Limoux
References
- ↑ Geneviève Gavignaud-Fontaine, Gilbert Larguier, Le vin en Languedoc et en Roussillon. De la tradition aux mondialisations, sp-XVI-XXI, Trabucaire 2007 p.123