Dom Pérignon (monk) blind. Contrary to popular belief, Dom Pérignon did not introduce blending to Champagne wines but rather the method of blending the grapes "prior" to sending them to press. Dom Pérignon (monk) Dom Pierre Pérignon, O.S.B., (December 163814 September 1715) was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly still red. Popular myths frequently, but erroneously, credit him with the invention of sparkling champagne, which didn't become the dominant style of Champagne until the mid-19th century. The famous champagne Dom Pérignon, the prestige cuvée
Theodoric the Monk Theodoric the Monk Theodoric the Monk (; also "Tjodrik munk"; in Old Norse his name was most likely "Þórir") was a 12th-century Norwegian Benedictine monk, perhaps at the Nidarholm Abbey. He may be identical with either Bishop Tore of the Diocese of Hamar or Archbishop Tore Gudmundsson, of the Archdiocese of Nidaros who both went under the Latin name "Theodoricus" in the Abbey of St. Victor, Paris. Theodoric wrote a brief history of the kings of Norway in Latin, "Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium" sometime between 1177 and 1188. The work covers Norwegian history from the reign of the 9th