My round

"I AM TASTING the stars!" Thus proclaimed Dom Perignon (1639- 1715) upon the discovery of sparkling wine. Appointed the business manager and cellar master at the Saint-Pierre d\´Hautvillers monastery in the region of Champagne in northeastern France at the age of 29, he found that by inoculating \´still\´ wine with yeast and sugar, re-corking, and then opening the bottle later, one made it explode with tiny carbon dioxide bubbles as the yeast converted the sugars into alcohol.