Bubbly Fun

• The shallow champagne glass originated with Marie Antoinette. It was first formed from wax molds made of her breasts.
• There are between 44 and 57 milion bubbles in a standard 750-ml bottle of Champagne.
• The longest recorded champagne cork flight was 177 feet and 9 inches, four feet from level ground at Woodbury Vineyards in New York State.
• Bubbles in Champagne were seen by early wine makers as a highly undesirable defect to be prevented.
• The pressure in a bottle of champagne is about 90 pounds per square inch. That's about three times the pressure in automobile tires.
• An unopened bottle of Champagne has no bubbles. It's only when you pop the cork that the pressure inside the bottle is released and the gas dissolved in the wine bursts into millions of bubbles.
• Flying champagne corks cause an average of 250 eye injuries worldwide every year.
• By the law of averages, you are more likely to be killed by a flying Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
• The speed of a popped Champagne cork ranges between 35 and 100 miles per hour.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh Champagne will continually circulate from the bottom of the glass to the top and back again.