Champagne in popular culture
Champagne has featured prominently in popular culture for over a century, due in part to a long history of effective marketing and product placement by leading Champagne houses and their representatives, such as CIVC. In time this created an association of Champagne with luxury and exclusivity. The popularity and positive attributes associated with Champagne have caused many other sparkling wine producers not located in the French wine region of Champagne to incorrectly use the name "champagne" to describe their wines.
Grape-Shot: 1915 English magazine illustration of a woman riding a Champagne cork
A traditional fluted Champagne glass, shaped to best display the wine's effervescence
The music cover to George Leybourne's Champagne Charlie
Un bar aux Folies Bergère by Édouard Manet, completed in 1882, features several bottles of unopened champagne.
Moët & Chandon, also known simply as Moët, is a French fine winery and part of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE. Moët et Chandon is one of the world's largest champagne producers and a prominent champagne house. Moët et Chandon was established in 1743 by Claude Moët, and today owns 1,190 hectares of vineyards, and annually produces approximately 28,000,000 bottles of champagne.
Moët & Chandon
The Orangerie at Épernay
A bottle of vintage 1999 Dom Pérignon with accompanying materials
Statue of Dom Pierre Pérignon, a Benedictine monk
