How to drink champagne: useful tips

Champagne is a festive alcoholic beverage. Due to their tenderness, sparkling wine is opened at ceremonies and wedding feasts. Many people do not think about a snack and the correct use of champagne, but in vain. Nobody has canceled the culture of drinking; a sparkling drink requires compliance with certain standards. How and with what to drink champagne, consider today.

How to open and pour champagne correctly

1. Champagne is consumed chilled. Therefore, before the feast, send the bottle with the contents to the refrigerator and achieve a temperature of 10-12 degrees. Do not freeze the drink or refrigerate it more than the mark. Otherwise, champagne will lose its sparkling, aftertaste and aroma.
2. It is believed that a bottle of champagne is lowered into a container with crushed ice. However, experienced sommeliers deny this aspect. Correct option: pour cold water into a bucket, then add ice cubes so that they float. After that, the container is installed on the bandwagon, a bottle is placed in the bucket. The installation rolls over to the table and stays there throughout the event.
3. To open the champagne, take the bottle in your hands, do not shake. Set the container with the contents, observing an angle of 45 degrees. Now grab the cork, scroll the bottle in your hands (and not vice versa, as is commonly believed). Thus, the cork comes out of the neck easily, without a “shot”.
4. Prepare tall glasses on a long leg, made of smooth transparent glass for drinking champagne (expanding from the leg to the middle, then tapering). Champagne glasses do not need to be pre-cooled. During bottling, slightly tilt the glass, then pour the drink on the wall in 2 sets. Let's foam the opportunity to settle. The wine glass is filled at ¾.

How to drink champagne

1. No ice is added to the glass with the drink, cooling is carried out in advance on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator or in a bucket of cold water and ice. When the champagne reaches the desired temperature, you can start using it.
2. Take the wine glass in your left hand, do not exhale, as before strong liquor. Sip sparkling wine in small sips, savoring each serving. You should feel with your tongue the whole fragrant bouquet of potions.
3. It should be remembered that after you put the glass of champagne on the bandwagon or table, you can not raise the glass again. Even if you made "just one sip." Simply put, if you poured a full glass, while the wine turned out to be tasty, you need to hold the glass in your hand until it is completely empty.
4. It is also important to consider that a glass with sparkling wine should be held by the leg, and not the main body (as is the case with whiskey). From the warmth of the hands, the drink will warm up, become less sparkling and attractive. You will not get true pleasure from the use.
5. If the celebration began in the hall (for example), and then you were invited to the festive hall at the table, leave champagne in the first room. According to etiquette, in the front room you will be poured a glass of fresh sparkling wine.
6. For people who wish to follow all the canons, it is important to learn how to open a bottle of champagne correctly. Hold the bottle with the label in your palm, scrolling not the lid, but the vessel itself. Wait a while until the foam settles, only then proceed to bottling.

What to have champagne

Observe all the subtleties of drinking sparkling wine will help you to choose the right snack. Consider the following recommendations when you are in a restaurant or in the process of planning a grand celebration.

Many believe that champagne can be drunk with any dishes, but this statement is erroneous. Desserts, cold and warm appetizers, main dishes are most suitable for sparkling wine. With the first alcohol is not combined, however, as with some hot and cold.

1. Cold snacks. If you want to show your guests what you understand in etiquette, serve champagne first with cold appetizers. On the festive table, such dishes have a special place. Of the most common snacks, homemade or purchased pickles, smoked sausages, cheeses, meat, canned seafood, sandwiches with added greens and cheese (without additional impurities, peppers), salads are distinguished.
2. A fish. Sparkling wine is not drunk in combination with salted fish, as such a duet will cause disgust. However, no one forbids you to treat guests with hot or cold smoked fish with a moderate ambassador. The main thing is to accompany the dish with sauce and a cheese plate. Supplements are only suitable if the fish is cooked without hot spices and served with a small amount of fresh vegetables.
3. Sausage. Champagne is not drunk with sausages of any origin. These include boiled pork, loin, smoked breast, ham, etc. However, if you use these products as a filling for sandwiches, combine them with a quail / chicken egg and cheese. Feel free to serve refreshments to semi-dry and dry sparkling wine.
4. Cheese. If you plan to spend an evening with your loved one or throw a wide feast for a decent number of guests, do not lose sight of the cheese plate. The choice of variety depends on the personal preferences of the owner and friends. Spiced cheese, spicy, salty and lightly salted, hard, soft - all options are good. Feel free to combine sweet / semi-sweet, dry / semi-dry sparkling wine.
5. Salads. Cold snacks include salads, which are in perfect harmony with champagne. Cook them from fresh vegetables with olive oil, shrimp and other seafood, and hard cheese. Such combinations are ideal for sparkling wines marked "semi-dry" and "dry." Salads can not be seasoned with mayonnaise or sauce based on it, hot spices, garlic, sour cream. Snacks should also not be made from stewed vegetables.
6. Meat. When it comes to warm snacks, you should also pay attention to the correct selection of champagne. Sparkling wine is not served with meat. However, it can be used in combination with chicken and turkey, boiled or steamed fish. Decorate the listed blanks with fresh herbs, egg and grated cheese, then serve to the guests. The main thing is not to season dishes with hot spices and sauces. In the case of chicken, the bird should not be fried. Stewing and cooking is acceptable, the dish is seasoned with melted butter.
7. Seafood. A cocktail based on all kinds of octopuses, squids, mussels, oysters, lobsters, crab, shrimp is considered the most popular when choosing dishes for serving champagne. Moreover, the snack can be represented in all its variety (fried, stewed, boiled, steamed). Bake seafood in the oven, then stuff them, combine with dry and semi-dry, sweet and semi-sweet sparkling wine.
8. Fruit. It is difficult to imagine a champagne feast that is not accompanied by a fruit plate. As an appetizer, grapes, figs, apples, pears, bananas are suitable, with the exception of citruses. Often drink with seasonal berries. Ideal is fresh strawberries coated with chocolate and ground nuts.
9. Dessert. If champagne is served at the table at the end of a grand event, its combination with dessert will be appropriate. As the last, give preference to vanilla, creme brulee or cream ice cream. Also suitable fruit (almond, apricot, peach).In the case where there is a choice of dessert for pink and red champagne, you can not do without chocolate ice cream with nuts or without them. Until recently, sparkling wines could not be combined with jelly, pudding, cake, marshmallows, marmalade, cakes, cookies, sweets or cream, but now this is completely acceptable.

Champagne is used chilled (temperature 10-12 degrees). Particular attention is paid to the choice of glasses, the glass should be made of transparent smooth glass and have a long leg. Sparkling wine is drunk leisurely in small sips. If you took the glass in your hand, put it on the table only after emptying. For an effective serving, choose the right snack without violating the permissible combinations.

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