Wit and Wisdom about Wine

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When tasting the first sparkling champagne, Benedictine monk Dom Perignon supposedly said, "Come quickly, I am drinking the stars!" It's more likely the quote originates from a late 19th century advertisement, but the sentiment is universally appealing.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:17.4	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:19.1	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson and I'm joined by comic co-host Lynn Coplitz.
0:23.6	Lynn, welcome back.
0:25.6	Hello.
0:26.6	I missed you last week.
0:27.6	I know.
0:28.6	Oh yeah, sure you did.
0:29.6	How funny he was, how great it was, bunch of church.
0:34.2	I think you're like this subject this week where this week, the topic is wine.
0:40.4	Why would I like that, Neil?
0:41.4	The science of wine.
0:43.3	Wine is good and we have special, special interviews and special contributed commentary.
0:49.9	And you know wine goes back 8,000 years.
0:52.6	8,000 years.
0:53.6	I would think it would go even farther.
0:54.8	Well, if it did, we don't know how the cavemen were doing it.
0:58.4	They were too drunk to write it down.
1:01.2	That's right.
1:02.2	It's all about what gets written down.
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