A Beginners Guide To Champagne And Its Glassware

When preparing for a special dinner or celebration, give your drinks menu a touch of glamour and festivity with a wine selection. Red wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot go well with red meats, casseroles, and other rich flavourful dishes. White wines are ideal with seafood, pasta and poultry. White wines worth pouring are Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris. For really special occasions, however, go the extra mile and bring out the bubbly! Serve them in timeless or decorative champagne glasses for weddings, anniversaries or reunions. A word to the wise, though: because of its bubbles, the alcohol in champagne goes through the bloodstream faster, but if you and your guests are up for a wild night, then drink up!

Champagne goes back a long way in history, and there are champagne houses existing now that date back all the way to the early eighteenth century, such as Mumm, Bollinger, Laurent Perrier, Krug, Lanson and Mercier. Champagne is the best-known sparkling wine in the world and is exclusively produced in a special region in France. This special drink also has special champagne glasses devoted to its use, divided into three categories: the flute, the saucer, and the tulip.

The champagne flute is used the world over, for its long thin shape gives champagne just the right amount of space. The champagne saucer or coupe is smaller than the flute, with a shallow body and wide mouth. The tulip, like the flute, is tall and narrow, with a slight curving out in the middle of the bowl for greater retention of the champagne’s aroma.

The best way to work out which champagne you like is to try as many varieties as you can, but remember that no champagne will look and taste good in ill-made, flimsy glasses. Select long-lasting glassware of good quality and reasonable price you and your guests will love drinking bubbly with.