Enjoy a glass of bubbly on the New Year? Turns out it wasn’t always a classy drink, according to Kate Bratskeir:

• Champagne was first created due to freak weather events. In 1400s Europe an abrupt temperature drop temporarily stopped the wine fermentation process.
• When temperatures warmed up in the spring the process restarted itself. This led to excess carbon dioxide and bubbly wine.
• The result was widely regarded as a sign of careless winemaking, in part because the bottles holding it would sometimes explode.
• However over time the populace grew to like it, and a monk named Don Pierre Pérignon was asked to make it even bubblier.
• In that way champagne is like lobster – it went from being a poor man’s food to one being enjoyed by the elite.
• Marilyn Monroe is said to have filled a bath with 350 bottles of it to bathe in.

Read more about the history of champagne here.

Source: Huffington Post