Adelaide-based wine marketer and sceptic Brian Miller has published conclusive proof that the insertion of a tea-spoon in the top of a bottle of sparkling wine does not prevent it from going flat. Suggesting that this mythological practice might actually have begun as a primitive form of breathalyser, Miller asserts that his conclusion stems from genuine research conducted by the CIVC (Comite Interprofessional du Vin de Champagne), which he writes was ‘quite surprised that this rather surrealist test had been leaked to the press’.
