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...It was notable therefore that after this 2002 versus 2004 extravaganza, even Baker did not propose popping any more corks....
...Is there any point in using champagne for buck’s fizz?It would be a waste to use a really good champagne....
...On another occasion, Kanné wrote to Clicquot requesting “one hundred bottles […] of your oldest champagne, not too sweet” – an indication that Victoria was very much on board with champagne trends of the...
...When I signed the lease for my apartment in Berlin, I popped the cork on a bottle of champagne, then told everyone I knew that if I were to ever leave this flat, it would be in a hearse....
...I start with the champagne....
...Then, in anticipation, someone popped the cork on a bottle of champagne and passed round plastic cups like communion wine — “cheers!” we said to each other, sharing an irreligious sacrament, “cheers!”...
...The real problem for wines of such rarity is getting people to actually pull the cork on them. This is a particular issue, I’m told, for the famously long-lived Château d’Yquem....
...Vanderbilts, assorted princes and lords, a governor of Hong Kong, consuls, the Earl of Cork, restaurateur Lorenzo Delmonico and, unnamed but identifiable, his patron Mrs Astor — McAllister name-drops his...
...The cork producers have not been slow to trumpet the virtues of keeping cork forests alive. I’m still quite agnostic on this whole thing. 72. Is there a ceiling to how good box wine can be?...
...“Stray champagne cork at Gorbachev’s wedding” is a highlight. It becomes a running joke and I never do find out what happened to his eye....
...My teenage son, Leo, who has a thing about opening bottles, is the sommelier for the night and he keeps popping corks until Columbo settles on a Sicilian red. Roden and I drink champagne....
...“Regular humidity is also crucial, so the cork doesn’t dry out. When looking at bottle capacity, bear in mind most designs are based on the classic Bordeaux bottle. Burgundy bottles tend to be fatter....
...The “invigorating” charity swim off the beaches of his hometown of Youghal, County Cork, is an annual tradition when Doyle is spending Christmas in Ireland, as he will this year....
...Nowadays, most that I encounter may not have had much sweetening “dosage” added when the bottle-aged wines are “disgorged” to have their final cork applied, but they tend to be well balanced....
...But what do wine pros really eat when they’re popping corks behind closed doors? The answer, most of the time, is not fancy at all....
...Be that as it may, champagne corks will no doubt be popping at Glencore’s headquarters in Zug tonight....
...The lyrics depict a decadent world of marble staircases, moated buildings, the popping of champagne corks and aeroplane descents over the French Riviera....
...Hong Kong’s leader John Lee — best known for overseeing a severe and unpopular security crackdown — sent champagne corks flying around the city’s offices on Friday....
...Because, until the corks are pulled from all those bottles of Meursault, St Joseph and Brunello di Montalcino slumbering in the faraway gloom, there’s absolutely no way of knowing if what’s inside them is...
...One category of champagne is missing this year: those produced on a small scale on single estates, wines often known as “growers’ champagnes” as opposed to those from the big houses....
...Additional rate taxpayers will be popping champagne corks (never mind waiting for changes to alcohol duty) at the supersized boost the new chancellor has just delivered against the backdrop of a cost of...
...New York elites come for a slice of ’30s fantasy in which cocktails are served on sunset cruises and bottles of champagne are hidden in fairytale chalets at the end of hikes....
...Such was Picasso’s reputation that when a flying champagne cork damaged a lavish oil painting of Madame de Pompadour in one of the hotel’s opulent reception rooms, the management was savvy enough to know...
...The next three days were a maelstrom of espresso-fuelled curtain drops and champagne cork pops. Trends – or anti-trends, as some of us called them – emerged....
...Now that is not a cause for either complacency or champagne corks popping, but it is certainly, I think, the case that economic stewardship is central to the next election....
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