[Nexus] Champagne query

[dancefloorlandmine]

[grin] I won't ask whether anyone here knows anything about champagne, but I don't, personally.

We've got some bottles in the office, left over from an event, and the Fundraising department is wondering where on the scale of "good" to "pour down sink with nose held shut" they are ...

According to the label, it's "Sarcey Brut Champage Champagne", with "Private Cuvée", but there's nothing so classy as a date.

What is this stuff?

Comments

Champagne knowledge...

[ingenue-the.livejournal.com]

1. Fizzy bubbles make world sooo niicsh!

2. The teeny tiny bottles are best because you can drink them all to yourself with a little black straw and still look glam... that never seems to work with normal size bottles.

You now have my entire knowledge on the subject of Champagne.

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Valuable additions to the world of erudition, nonetheless!

that never seems to work with normal size bottles
Yeah - you need a longer straw!

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[ingenue-the.livejournal.com]

IMPORTANT TESTING DETAILS:
I have tried it with a) longer straws & b) drunkenly hastily engineered 'pipes' of shorter straws - however the effect is always more trailer trash than glamourous chic - however expensive the bubbly.

The 20cl bottle rule!
Especially Moet & Chandon or Veuve Cliquot

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

You see, that's the kind of scientific method usually sadly lacking in tales of inebriation!

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Drinking champagne from the bottle only cool if sprawled on satin sheets surrounded by nubile lovelies of the appropriate gender(s).

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[ingenue-the.livejournal.com]

it's an image that certainly works for me!

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[countess-sophia.livejournal.com]

Or if you are bringing home a bottle of 1953 Perrier-Jouet home from work and the top comes off due to the vibration of the number 30 bus. Or doing it while giving an interview to the BBC, or standing with your partners on Streatham Common at midnight new year's eve 1999 drinking the finest vintages, taking e and watching London look like it's being shelled.

Soph x

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Or if you are bringing home a bottle of 1953 Perrier-Jouet home from work and the top comes off due to the vibration of the number 30 bus.
Oops! [grin]

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[margotmetroland.livejournal.com]

1953 Perrier Jouet?

(cries)

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[countess-sophia.livejournal.com]

There have been advantages in working as a wine journalist for many years. On the other hand, even the best wine is not at it finest when it goes at speed up one's nose. Fortunately, I had a case.

Soph

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[margotmetroland.livejournal.com]

I envy you and hate you in equal measure, and even more so for the case of PJ.

How did you get to be a wine journo? Such a cool job but not one I could do as I'd never be sober enough to write anything and I hate red wine.

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Hmmm - not only a fizz expert, but friend of chiller as well. A double threat (or doubly fabulous).

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[countess-sophia.livejournal.com]

Both are true :)

Soph

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[countess-sophia.livejournal.com]

I was already a journo and I applied to a job ad in the Guardian, I got the job because I already knew a bit about wine and because I could tell the publisher how to cook grouse off the top of my head. Sad but true.

May I friend you?

Soph

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[margotmetroland.livejournal.com]

My dear, with your knowledge of fine wines, I shall be hanging on your every word!

If it's not too intrusive, where do we find your professional scribblings?

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[margotmetroland.livejournal.com]

My dear, with your knowledge of fine wines, I shall be hanging on your every word!

If it's not too intrusive, where do we find your professional scribblings?

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm already married.

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Excellent suggestion!

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Always ensure that you have a polycarbonate travel champagne flute available. Then you can drink full sized bottles with ease.

Re: Champagne knowledge...

[ingenue-the.livejournal.com]

Now that's smooth!