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FOOD AND WINE MATCHING- 4 SIMPLE TIPS

Here are a few quick and easy tips about matching food and champagne and they apply equally well to other wines. All rules are meant to be broken of course and that’s just as true about food and wine as about anything else, but if you’re new to this subject, or if you’re entertaining friends of business contacts and want to look and feel in countrol, then these suggestions may help.

The best champagne in the world

was hosting a champagne tasting event at the offices of a large pharmeceutical company last night and was struck once again about how the same questions and comments come up at every event.

You've probably heard many of them yourself : is it true that the smaller the bubbles, the better the champagne ?

Is it true that if you put the handle of a teaspoon in the neck of an open bottle it will keep the champagne fizzy ?

I'll have to come back to these on another occasion but there was another question last night that always crops up - Which is the best champagne in the world ?

TIME FOR A REST IN CHAMPAGNE

Many people think of champagne as being an expensive luxury and it’s true that you have to pay more for a bottle of champagne than you do for most other wines. On the other hand if you knew how much time and work went into producing a bottle of champagne I suspect that you‘d start wondering why is it wasn’t even more expensive. Here's just one example...

Free champagne on the National Health Service

I once made a presentation about why champagne should be made available on prescription because of it's many health benefits. I'm not sure if I convinced everyone in the audience but it's an idea that definitely has some appeal.

Champagne makes you feel great and that's an important factor in maintaining good health and it's less likely to give you a thumping hangover than red wine or brown spirits.

I once met a Frenchman who swore that champagne didn't show up on a breathalyser - I don't recommend that you try this however and it has to be said that the Frenchman in question was a champagne-maker, so he would say that wouldn't he.