Some Interesting Facts About Champagne

It's the time of year for celebration, and nothing gets a Christmas celebratory party

off to a flying start like a bottle of ice-cold bubbly Champagne or two.

Bubbly is best served very cold and in long flutes to show off the delicious bubbles, and can be enjoyed with a wide variety of food to complement meals. Bubbly is delicious when it is drank with seafood, and in particular salmon, both smoked and fresh, lobster, clams and oysters and sushi, as well as typically salty cuisine such as traditional Asian food including Thai, Chinese, Korean and Japanese food.

Creamy food, like risotto, also goes very well with bubbly, with cream being an undertone of Champagne.

It's fine to serve bubbly with desert, too, but make sure it's a sweeter bottle to really compliment it.

You don't really need to abide by any rules when it comes to pairing food and wine, these are general guidelines only and it's down to personal taste how you have your Champagne. Take Marilyn Monroe for example. The screen siren is reported to have had a bath in a tub filled with bubbly, and her biographer says that it took a whole 350 bottles of it to fill the bath up. This is one to try at home perhaps, if you're feeling particularly flush.

Other interesting facts about bubbly you may not know include those about the grapes used to make it. There are three main grapes cultivated for usage, but two of them are black: Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. Most people are surprised to learn this because the drink itself is white. The remaining grap used is white, Chardonnay, and the other two black grapes are in fact pressed very gently, which means that the juice produced is light and does not involve any of the darker colour escaping from the dark skins.

Champagne is actually one of the prized inventions in life which was actually discovered by accident. When wine was first produced in the Champagne region of France, fermentation meant that the carbon dioxide produced caused the bottles to explode all over cellars, creating hazards for workers and leading producers to seek ways to eradicate the bubbles altogether.

It wasn't until the British heard about the wine, and began shipping it over in barrels and storing it in stronger glass bottles that the drink really took off and became commercially viable.

Nowadays, the wine has achieved world-wide fame, and after reading this, you can amaze your friends as you top up their glasses with some of the amazing facts you now know about bubbly!

by: Dominic Donaldson

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