Champagne

Champagne Champion Chance process Chancroid Chanel No. 19 Chanel No. 5... 

Red sparkling burgundy, champagne rouge. Cold Duck... 

Without muscat flavor Champagne, California (etc) champagne (bottle or bulk refermented). Cava (Spain), Sekt (Germany), espumante, shampanski, spumante, sparkling Catawba, etc... 

A top-quality London hotel was horrified to find that its house champagne, for which it charged 60 per bottle, lost its bubbles a few moments after it was poured. At first the hotel blamed the suppliers, but... 

Champagner, m. champagne, -weisse, /. a strongly foaming pale beer. 

Cocktail Conceptions, which is actually Mr. Zaric and Mr. Kosmas s dining room table, set up with liquors, barware and glassware, jars of sugars and vanilla beans, homemade infusions and bowls of fruits currently in the markets in Astoria, has worked for Courvoisier, Beefeater, Mumm and Perrier Jouet Champagne, and the new Stoli Premier. 

The French 75 is a classic cocktail, circa World War I, which is currently regaining recognition. It is named for the French 75-millimeter gun used by Allied troops, including, according to one story, Captain Harry S Truman. The drink s munitions are Cognac and Champagne. The simplest recipe calls for little more than a twist of lemon. Versions that take prisoners include liqueurs. 

The cocktail is clearly of a previous era, with an emphasis on luxury items like Cognac and Champagne, and is unusual in a genteel way no dishonorable tricks. 

Shake all the ingredients, except the Champagne, in a tall shaker filled with ice. Strain and pour into a cold martini glass. Top to the brim with Champagne. Garnish with flamed orange twist. (Hold a lighted match briefly to the twist to release its oil.)... 

The French Mojito was served initially at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, and Mr. Ducasse and his team have brought the new mojito with them to New York. It very simply substitutes Champagne for club soda, and it works, to brilliant effect. 

But Champagne—what s not to like a lot It pops it bubbles it knows how to work a glass. It acts like a party guest. And Champagne cocktails can be an improvement on the drink, which is strangely banal after a flute or two, like beauty without any social backup. 

A midpriced bottle of Champagne or a similar sparkling wine, eighteen dollars or so, is a useful economy, too, served as kir royales, with the addition of a fruit liqueur like creme de cassis or creme de framboise. You can look for less likely, more exotic flavors, like creme de peche, which is peach, or creme de mure, blackberry. It s a nice touch to have a bar stocked with an interesting variety. With white wine, they make a good rotation of aperitifs year-round. 

The standard Champagne cocktail is Champagne poured over a sugar cube soaked in Angostura bitters. The drink dates back to the... 

The diamond fizz is Champagne with the juice of a lemon and a teaspoon of sugar. The black velvet adds Guinness stout. My favorite, the stratosphere (who wouldn t try it to find out ), calls for creme Yvette, which is produced from Parma violets and turns out a purple cocktail. You garnish it with cloves. 

At Craft, Tom Colicchio s ingredient-fanatical restaurant at 43 East 19th Street in New York, the house drink is a Champagne cocktail that is seasonal like the food. 

During the fall and winter, Matthew MacCartney, the beverage director, mixes Champagne with cubes of Bartlett pear bathed briefly in a pear liqueur. The taste, as simple as something perfectly ripe, is fresher than the sum of its parts. 

It s a Champagne snow globe. For a holiday drink, how much happier can you get ... 

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