I Am Drinking Stars! A History of Champagne

Dom Pierre Prignon tells the story of the worlds most luxurious champagne tracing its circuitous history across four centuries arranged in three chapters--one each for the seventeenth eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Beautifully produced in keeping with its subject this page-turning luxury object unravels the myth of Dom Prignon champagne beginning with its namesake--the pioneering Benedictine Monk Dom Pierre Prignon--who set out to create the best wine in the world. Offering glimpses of the champagne-infused hedonism of Louis XVs court at Versailles Marilyn Monroes glamorous affiliation with the beverage and Karl Lagerfelds recent advertising campaign for the brand this volume incorporates a spectrum of artifacts including texts drawings paintings photographs and film stills from artists and writers such as Franois Boucher Denis Diderot and Jonathan Swift.