ART TO DRINK CHAMPAGNE

Without this sparkling-flying invention of French monk Perinona not to manage almost one holiday. However, on etiquette and the various conventions invented on our head to drink champagne actually it is necessary not always and not with all. If you it is final not aristocrats, or... Know who.

With what to drink

Let's tell at once: the refinement and elegance top considers a feast on which champagne submit from the beginning and up to the end. Thus than more difficult and more juicy the dish, especially high class should be champagne.

Classical and most aristocratic variant — high quality champagne and black caviar. But is, of course, and other variants of giving of a noble drink.
Here some of them:

1. As aperitif, i.e. a drink stimulating appetite, on parties, buffet tables and balls drink brut blanc de blancs. That is deciphered approximately so: very dry white from white grapes of grade Шардонне;

2. In romantic evening with favourite it is possible to indulge itself brut millesime — champagne from grapes of one crop with instructions of year on a label.
   The pleasure it not from cheap, but nevertheless is much more accessible, than, for example, pink champagne, cuvee de prestige or cuvee de luxe — that means: the best;

3. It is accepted to wash down confectionery products sec, dry — moist champagne;

4. To cheeses submit pink champagne.

5. With desserts especially is in harmony extra sec, extra dry — dry champagne, or sec, dry — moist;

6. And, at last, to sweeten a life it is authorised simply so, without especial ceremonial shifts, demi-sec, semi dry — semisweet, or doux, sweet — sweet champagne.

The best

Good champagne — luxury. It is expensive already because process of its manufacturing is too combined — with each bottle before its occurrence on a shop counter is made to 200 (!) manipulations.
The essential note: pink champagne is appreciated time in ones and a half more expensively equivalent on quality
The white.

Here some the best grades:
- VEUVE CLICQUOT BRUT YELLOW LABEL. It is irreplaceable for cocktails and under an oyster;
- WASHES and CHANDON BRUT IMPERIAL. Unique gathering from 150 vineyards;
- PIPER-HEIDSIECK BRUT. Champagne of stars: a drink of the Cannes festival;
- CHARLES HEIDSIECK. Tsvetochno-fruit aroma. Ideal aperitif;
- TAITTINGER BRUT RESERVE. Aroma of plums and lime honey.

How to keep the Genie in a bottle

In specialised shops of a bottle of firm champagne, are necessarily stored only in horizontal position, and here the paternal: champagne necessarily should moisten корковую a stopper. Otherwise at long storage of a bottle the stopper can crack, and carbonic gas will disappear. It, in turn, will lead to what even the best firm champagne will cease to play and will turn to usual dry wine.

The champagne bottle can be left and not drunk up if to get a special stopper for repeated закупоривания. In these stoppers there is a special mechanism for обхватывания a neck. It is considered, that if the bottle is repeatedly corked correctly its contents keep all flavouring properties within 12 hours. Do not try to close again a bottle its stopper - it for certain will take off after a while.