Located in Northern France is one of the most well-known wine-producing regions on Earth.

In fact, it's so well known that it has legally protected the name of its signature product around the world.

It's the preferred drink for both royalty and wrappers, and you'll find it at nightclubs and

brunches.

Yet its discovery was believed to be an accident.

An accident that is today a $6 billion industry. Learn more about Champagne, how it was created and its place in the world

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Wine has been produced around the Mediterranean for thousands of years.

However, it probably didn't reach Northern France until about the 5th century.

The wine, which was grown at this time, was just wine, not radically different from the wine you'd see grown in other regions.

By all accounts, the wine originally produced in the Champaign region of France was a light fruity wine, in contrast to the darker heavier wines found in Italy.

Perhaps most importantly for the winemakers in Champaign, their wines weren't

considered as high quality as the wines in the neighboring region of Burgundy.

The main city in the Champaign region is Rams, or as it's often pronounced in English,

Reams.

This is noteworthy because in 987, the French King Hugh Capet was crowned in Roms.

After this almost every French king was crowned in the Roms Cathedral.

For centuries the wine of Champagne was overshadowed by Burgundy.

They eventually tried to shift production to white wines

to differentiate themselves from Burgundy, but that didn't really work. It wasn't a bad idea

given how far north Champagne is, but it just didn't pan out. Eventually in the 16th and 17th centuries

they stumbled upon the idea of producing a white wine from red grapes. The

initial results tasted fine, but they had a gray or pinkish hue making them rather unpopular.

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