The knight who invented champagne : how Sir Kenelm Digby developed robust glass bottles--verre Anglais--which enabled wine and cider-makers to produce bottle-fermented sparkling wines and ciders /
Skelton, Stephen,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-156) and index.
Preface -- Principal characters in this tale -- Timeline -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Sparkling wine -- Mediaeval winemaking -- The wine trade in Britain ; Wine imports ; The négociant system ; Bottling -- Glassmaking: the change from timber to coal ; Glassmaking patents ; Sir Robert Mansell (1573-1636) ; Mansell and glassmaking -- Glass bottles ; Glass bottles in the wine, beer and cider industries -- Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) ; Digby gets married ; The voyage to Scandaroon ; Digby after the voyage ; 'Sir Kenelm Digby first invented the glass bottle' ; Death of Venetia Digby ; Digby imprisoned and then into exile ; Digby returns from exile ; The Royal Society ; Death of Digby ; The closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. opened ; Digby's donation to the Bodleian and Harvard libraries ; James Howell -- Newnham on Severn ; Sir John Winter -- Dr. Christopher Merret ; The Great Plague and the Fire of London ; Merret's interest in glass ; Tom Stevenson and Merret's paper on wine ; Papers on wine read to the Royal Society ; Merret's revelations concerning adding sugar to wine to make it 'brisk and sparkling' ; Merret's other writings -- Introduction to champagne ; Dom Pérignon ; Champagne after Dom Pérignon ; Champagne starts to sparkle ; Glass bottle development ; Charles de Saint-Denis, Seigneur de Saint-Évremond ; Blanquette de Limoux: the world's first sparkling wine? -- Mansell and Digby ; James Howell and Digby ; Mansell and Newnham on Severn ; John Colnett and the Attorney-Attorney General's investigation ; Sir John Winter and Digby ; Digby and bottle-making -- Date changes -- Glossary of glassmaking terms -- Sparkling wine methods -- Digby's 'Powder of Sympathy'.
Glass manufacture
Wine bottles
Champagne (Wine)
Champagne (Wine)
Glass manufacture.
Wine bottles.