Caviar and champagne are among the most time-tested of classic food and wine pairings, and a decidedly luxe one to boot. So naturally, one particularly high-end French wine brand thought to combine the two, creating a super-product akin to the child of two renowned celebrities. But does the world really need black caviar champagne its developer refers…
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Warmer weather often means lighter drinking, and with that, the return of the spritz. Try this version with some Jagermeister.
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This year, serve all-American cheese boards to your guests and let them know where the goods came from. Now's the time to spread the love.
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Now if something's worth doing, it's worth doing fast and loose. Chambong is a lovely, blown-glass means of delivering champagne directly down your gullet.
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Contributor Chad Walsh writes about wine and other beverages frequently for Food Republic. He is the former beverage manager for the Dutch in New York City and is currently working on the opening of Agern, Danish chef Claus Meyer’s planned restaurant in Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal.Nearly anyone who’s seen the inside of my refrigerator has mocked me…
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Gianpaolo Paterlini is a critically acclaimed sommelier who is partner and wine director at 1760 and wine director for Acquerello in San Francisco.Champagne is perhaps the most recognizable but misunderstood wine in the world. To start, it is a sparkling wine, typically made from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and/or Pinot Meunier grapes grown in the Champagne…
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According to a report released today by the Champagne Bureau, Americans are sipping on more Champagne than ever before. For the third year in a row, shipments of Champagne — the capital "c" means that it's authentic Champagne from the French region that produces it, as opposed to other sparkling wines — increased in 2015…
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Champagne may not be the first type of wine that comes to mind when talking about food pairings, but executive chef Sarah Simmons of NYC's Birds & Bubbles is out to change that perception. Not only does she view the bubbly beverage as the ideal accompaniment to a large array of dishes across a number of cuisines, but…
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A little bubbly never hurt anyone, but a few too many of these potent 75's might do some damage. Champagne cocktails — with the original incarnation employing only a sugar cube doused in Angostura at the bottom of the glass to produce a stream of bubbles — date back to before the word “cocktail” even existed. The…
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Jeffrey Morgenthaler is Food Republic’s contributing cocktail editor and the author of the column Easy Drinking. He currently manages the bars Clyde Common and Pépé Le Moko in Portland, Oregon, and is the author of The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique. It’s the time of year for celebratory holiday cocktails; you know, the kind with champagne in…
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We’ve all heard that drinking more red wine is good for the heart (and the soul, of course) and that a glass can even be the equivalent to an hour at the gym. But what about champagne?A recent study performed by the University of Reading in the U.K. found that a glass of bubbly isn’t…
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While we were busy eating hot dogs and setting fireworks off this weekend, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) made several additions to its World Heritage List, the BBC reports.UNESCO deemed French sites of champagne production (because we all know that if it’s not French, it’s just sparkling wine) a world treasure to be…
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Warmer days are here, and for most of us that means that around 5 p.m. our ability to work is severely compromised as visions of a glass of refreshing sparkling wine claim the imagination. Maybe some of us prefer to splurge on the best grower champagnes out there, but even so, there is always a…
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The wine app Delectable allows users to snap a photo of a label, click send, then will catalog the bottle with all relevant details about the vintage and showcase it for your network of friends. A social network devoted to wine? Sounds like a strong idea on its own. Now, the app, which has a…
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It wouldn't be France Week without a glass of the bubbly, er, Champagne. As in not sparkling wine or prosecco or lower-case champagne or anything else that isn't from that picturesque town not far from Paris known as — you guessed it — Champagne. Here's a helpful public service announcement timed to reminding holiday drinkers…
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34 Restaurant in London’s Mayfair neighborhood is the kind of place where you can order Cornish sardines with violet artichokes and Indian-spiced monkfish coconut. There’s a nice sorbet with passion fruit, Charentais melon and mint. Also, as of yesterday, you can sip Champagne out of a coupe shaped to the precise dimension of the breasts…
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Somewhere in a universe where people believe the things super-famous actors say about their personal lives, lies this headline: Gérard Depardieu: I Drink 14 Bottles Of Wine A Day And I've Killed Two Lions. Gérard Depardieu was wine-drunk in lion territory? Let's go directly to that universe, because that sounds like an awesome place to…
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The Frozémonade was created to be the antidote to hot, sticky, summer nights in Brooklyn. But really, this drink is inspired by the fun of playing around with the blender. The best drinks often come together like this in one moment, with the concept, ingredients and name falling into place. Then you give it to…
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Two years ago, I was in a biker bar in Sturgis, South Dakota (hey, don’t judge), when I spotted an unusual vending machine. Just below the Pringles and Life Savers were three rows of cigarettes – priced at just $4.00 a pack, no less. It was an utter anachronism, like seeing a Shakespearean actor wear…
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Ever since it was published in The Savoy Cocktail Book and infiltrated the top bars in Paris and New York, the French 75 has reigned as one of the most elegant Champagne cocktails. Though some today try to serve it with gin as the base, Cognac is not only a far better choice in terms…
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No matter what your drink of choice, you’re likely to enjoy a glass – or three – of bubbly to help ring in the New Year. There is, perhaps, no type of booze that is more synonymous with a holiday than champagne and New Year’s Eve. Next week is champagne’s time to shine, and chances…
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For those who hear the word “flute” and think of Jethro Tull, the world of sparkling wine can seem overwrought, with all the high price tags and superfluous capitalization. But the sea of sparkles is vast. From undiscovered grower Champagnes that cost less than $50 a bottle to emerging wine markets with effervescence to spare,…
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