Posts Tagged ‘Champagne/sparkling wine’

Everybody occasionally loves a funny or inspirational quote. I also particularly like champagne. Or Champagne if you prefer. Sparkling wine is enjoyable as well. With that in mind, here is a list of 40 quotations about champagne that I've collected over the last little while. I hope they, along with a tall, slender flute of perfectly chilled champagne, make your day.

40 quotations about champagne

How much champagne is enough? I think Mark Twain (#9) got it right.

1. "Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!"
~DOM PERIGNON, upon his first taste of champagne

2. "One glass of champagne and I smile, two and I grin, but three I'm ever so ready to sin."
~ANASTASIA MILLER

3. "One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere."
~MARK TWAIN

4. "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
~GRAHAM GREENE

5. "There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne."
~BETTE DAVIS

What brand of champagne does James Bond prefer? This and more in our Martinis and Madmen quiz.

6. "My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne."
~JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

7. "I only drink champagne when I'm happy, and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I am not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty."
~LILY BOLLINGER

8. "Why do I drink champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?"
~NOEL COWARD

9. "Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right."
~MARK TWAIN

10. "Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."
~DOROTHY PARKER

During WWII, Sir Winston Churchill fought for honour, country and... champagne? (See #19 and #29.)

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Last week I finished participating in my third Mixology Monday, an online cocktail party that allows us all to whip up a few drinks and discover some creative and talented writers and home bartenders.

The theme for this month's MxMo was beer cocktails and it was hosted by Frederic at the Cocktail Virgin Slut blog.

The Beerbach cocktail: my submission to Mixology Monday LIX.

I haven't had a chance to read through all the great entries, 29 in total I believe, but my first look through shows a very promising and varied group of drinks. Read the roundup post to check at all the tasty beer cocktail submissions.

What' your favourite beer cocktail?

This month's Mixology Monday theme is Beer Cocktails and this month's host is Frederic at Cocktail Virgin Slut. Mixology Monday is a monthly online cocktail party showcasing great recipes, writers, mixologists and booze blogs. Check out the Mixology Monday homepage for all the details.

Using Frederic's guidelines and suggestions, I've decided to try a Champagne cocktail for this month's MxMo, substituting beer for the sparkling wine. I love Champagne and cocktails featuring sparkling wine so this seemed like a good idea.

I decided that my base would be a classic, pre-Prohibition Champagne cocktail named the Seelbach, the recipe for which had been lost for many years before being rediscovered. It's a very tasty, sturdy drink that can sneak up on you if you have too many.

The Beerbach cocktail.

I used a simple lager for the following drink and somewhat surprisingly, it worked well. I think a heavier beer might have fought off the other flavours, although if anyone wants to give it a go and let me know the results, I'd be interested.

Oh yeah, if you love bitters, this is definitely a drink for you.

Beerbach Cocktail

Ingredients:
3/4 oz bourbon
1/2 oz Cointreau or triple ec
7 dashes Angostura bitters
7 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Beer

Preparation:
Build drink in a Champagne flute in the order given. Garnish with an orange twist.

For more info on the classic Seelbach Cocktail, check out the video from Robert Hess below. Cheers!

With the Royal Wedding only days away (April 29), I received another cocktail recipe inspired by the big event in my inbox this morning.

I'm in the office so I can't give it a try until later, but as a fan of cocktails featuring sparkling wines, the ingredient list certainly looks promising. Plus, champagne is just classy, right?

Oh yeah. For the sake of full disclosure, no one sent me any free Bénédictine to promote this recipe. Or free anything else for that matter. Honest.

Royal Wedding cocktail: Kiss Royale

Royal Wedding cocktail: The Kiss Royale. A drink fit for royalty?

Ingredients:
25 ml Bénédictine
12.5 ml elderflower liqueur
12.5 ml fresh lime juice
Dash egg white
Top with Ridgeview Merret Grosvenor sparkling wine

Method:
1. Add Bénédictine, elderflower liqueur, lime juice and egg white in a cocktail shaker with a generous batch of ice.

2. Shake well and fine strain into a champagne flute or saucer. Top with sparkling wine.

3. Garnish with dried lavender sprig.

Recipe created by John Clay.

A couple of tips:
1. For those of you uncomfortable with the metric system, or without the measures to pull it off, I'd approximate the ingredients as follows. (Again, this is an approximation only.) I would use 1 oz of the Bénédictine, and a 1/2 oz each of the elderflower liqueur and the lime juice.

2. Never agitate sparkling wine, champagne or other carbonated mixers/beverages in your shaker. Use them to top off your drinks. It will save you a lot of cleaning up.

If you're thirsty for more drinks to enjoy during the special festivities, here are another 4 royal wedding cocktails you can make at home.

Is the Royal Wedding your cup of tea? Or do you have better things to do?