Ruinart!

Ruinart

The oldest recorded sparkling wine is Blanquette de Limoux, which was apparently invented by Benedictine Monks in the Abbey of Saint Hilaire near Carcassonne in 1531.

Benedictine Monks in 1531

It was invented in England by cider makers in Gloucestershire Devon.

French will tell you a French Monk Don perignon created champagne, but its now known fact that the English created it 20yrs before hand,by taking a bottle of french wine and adding suger ( creating the fermentation process) also English bottles were alot thicker and stronger so they didnt explode during the process. The French didnt have thick strong bottles that would of supported it.

Blanquette de Limoux produce by French monks

“The method of making “mousse” (another name for bubbles) in a bottle was invented by the efforts of Frère Jean Oudart (1654 – 1742) and Dom Pierre Pérignon (1639 – 1715), Benedictine monks and cellarmasters at the respective abbeys of Saint-Pierre aux Monts de Châlons and Saint-Pierre d’Hautvillers.” Mary Bellis – about.com

Ruinart was the first Champagne house (1729),The French version of the history is that Dom Perignon, a merry French monk from Hautvillers (1638-1715) was the one who invented Champagne. (Diane Morrison)

the monks of St. Hilaire in the south of France had begun making sparkling wine as early as 1531

It was invented in England by cider makers in Gloucestershire Devon.

French will tell you a French Monk Don perignon created champagne, but its now known fact that the English created it 20yrs before hand,by taking a bottle of french wine and adding suger ( creating the fermentation process) also English bottles were alot thicker and stronger so they didnt explode during the process. The French didnt have thick strong bottles that would of supported it.

Read this again, will try again. I think the answer is Christopher Merret