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Mumm Supports Mike Horn's Pangaea Expedition

Filed under: Events

At seven key stages of a worldwide trek that will take four years to complete, Mumm has organized exceptional Mumm Explorer Experiences in partnership with extreme adventurer Mike Horn to celebrate the planet's beauty. Dubbed the 'Commandant Charcot of modern times' who was the first Frenchman to cross Antarctica 100 years ago, Mike Horn is currently retracing Charcot's exact route across Antartica encouraging greater respect for the environment and active participation in the preservation of the world's many natural inhabitants. Along his earth-wide exploration star-studded chefs and Mumm's premiere champagne will greet Mike with a first-class dinner -- the first two showcased the culinary skills of two-star chef Sylvestre Wahid and three-Michelin-star chef Gérard Boyer. I think if you're going to exert yourself for that many months at a time you're going to really enjoy the bubbly. Now, how do I get invited to one of these spectacular meals...

[via Materialiste]

Gallery: Mumm's Explorer Experiences

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Champagne Lightens Up

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

Rising fuel prices have some curious and wide-ranging consequences. The Financial Times reports it may be making your Champagne bottles thinner. Champagne bottles traditionally weigh more than a bottle of still wine in order to contain the pressure of sparkling wine. Bottles used to be smashed against ship bows for launching are thinned for easy breakage. But thinner bottles take less energy to create and are cheaper to ship.

G.H Mumm, the Champagne house owned by Pernod Ricard has completed a trial production run of bottle which weigh 835 grams (around 1.84 pounds which is a couple of ounces lighter than regular bottles which are 900 grams). The lighter bottles will be put in caves where the bottles will age.

The lighter bottles will save money on fuel because more of them can be loaded on each truck. Pommery, which already uses the bottles, says that if all the Champagne houses switched to lighter bottles there would be 3,000 fewer trucks on the road each year.

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