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To only drink champagne?

33 replies

Pioneer · 28/08/2010 20:58

Every time I drink wine, I get a really red, hot face and chest (this has only started happening post ds - no idea why).

Anyway DH bought some champagne for our anniversary and I seem to be fine!

So guess what I'll only be drinking from now on?

It's a hard life......Grin

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Pioneer · 28/08/2010 20:59

I jest of course.

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MistsandMellowMilady · 28/08/2010 21:03

It's a terrible life!

Not even Chablis?

Psammead · 28/08/2010 21:09

Like, ever? For brekkie even?

Sounds like a plan.

MistsandMellowMilady · 28/08/2010 21:13
Grin

That's my plan.

My mate went to take her Dad to a early hospital appointment and found her Mum wearing a dressing-gown drinking a glass of sparkling wine at seven in the morning. Cool!

hairytriangle · 28/08/2010 21:14

LOL @ Pioneer - I go pink and hot everytime I drink white wine or Champagne - I kinda quite like it!

I read somewhere it's a genetic thing - some of us are genetically made up for this reaction to happen.

Psammead · 28/08/2010 21:18

I get the wine rash too. All up my chest and under my throat. People like pointing it out to me. I like wine more than I dislike people doing that.

expatinscotland · 28/08/2010 21:33

Yuk.

It's horrible.

Made from chardonnay grapes.

Eewww.

sunny2010 · 28/08/2010 22:09

I go pink and hot when I drink wine but it seems to be because I end up completely hammered off 2 glasses! I have no idea why wine hits me so bad when I could easily stick to spirits and mixers for way longer. Wine has been the cause of many an embarrassing moment in my life!!

ilovemydogandMrObama · 28/08/2010 22:12

DP calls cider, 'Somerset Champagne...' Smile

Quite like a cider with a hot hot curry.

nannynobnobs · 29/08/2010 00:42

I hated champagne until our friends bought us a bottle of Moet for christmas. Now we buy the very occasional bottle of good stuff :)

belledechocolatefluffybunny · 29/08/2010 00:46

Just buy cava, it's the same but they can't call it champagne as it's not from that region of France, it's alot cheaper Wink

funkychunkymunky · 29/08/2010 00:48

ohhh I lurve champagne

funkychunkymunky · 29/08/2010 00:49

Mumm champagne is my favourite

TrillianAstra · 29/08/2010 01:33

Champagne? Well, depends if you are going to be unnecessarily poncey about the origin of your sparkling fermented grape juice (as belle says).

SweetestThing · 29/08/2010 08:26

Marks & Spencer vintage Cava brut - fantastic and often on special offer through t'internet :-D

Doesn't last long in my house, though....

mangoandlime · 29/08/2010 08:44

Champagne, I want to love it...but I hate the taste. Yuck.

sanielle · 29/08/2010 08:46

This seems an acceptable way of life to me. If only I could afford it (and wasn't up the duff)

dandycandyjellybean · 29/08/2010 09:58

Champagne and cava are 2 different animals though, the bubbles in champagne are bigger and for some reason that's why you get plastered more quickly....or so I've read. I love both, but they are deffo different.

Oenopod · 29/08/2010 10:14

I couldn't let this thread pass me by... I make sparkling wine (champagne method) for a living...

Champagne is made from Chardonnay, but it is also made from Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. It depends which village/area the grapes were grown. Often it's a blend of all three.

Cava is made in the same way, but from different grape varieties, in northeast Spain - as opposed to northeast France. The differences between the two are more to do with climate and varieties than method or bubbles. Cava is cheaper mainly because it is much easier to grow grapes in warm Spain than cold northern France. They are worlds apart.

There is a lot of nasty cheap Champagne around that cashes in the reputation of its betters. Life is too short to drink cheap Champagne.

Champagne (and decent quality English sparkling wine - try it!) is expensive because it literally takes years to make.

It is normal practice to age the wine in bottle for 3 years or more before it is ready to sell. That storage time is part of what you are paying for.

From planting a vineyard to selling a bottle of high quality sparkling wine the producer will have to wait 8-10 years before he/she see as any kind of revenue coming in.

The cheap stuff can be churned out much faster. But there is a reason it is cheap.

Oenopod · 29/08/2010 10:15

And the finer the wine the smaller the bubbles generally are - don't know where sexbombs bigger bubbles myth cam from but it is exactly that - a myth

Oenopod · 29/08/2010 10:18

Oh and YANBU to only drink Champagne, but YABU if you haven't yet tried and English sparkling wine.

Waitrose sell a few....

ben5 · 29/08/2010 10:19

i hope you are having some strawberries in dipping chocolate with your champagne!!! now you have me thinking that i might have to go to the shops!!!

PeggysEvilTwin · 29/08/2010 17:21

When I am an old lady I will have a glass of champagne instead of a cup of tea every morning. I love it. It always makes everything just a little bit special, and if I could afford it I would drink it all the time.

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Pioneer · 29/08/2010 17:41

I have actually tried an English sparkling wine Oenopod and it was lovely!

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olderandwider · 29/08/2010 18:33

Pioneer - may I recomend the pink champagne, L'oeil de Perdrix label. I can seriously hoover up a bottle and wake up feeling refreshed and looking, well, normal rather than pasty-faced and trashed. I am such a lightweight that more than two glasses of anything else leaves me hungover and nauseous. here www.majestic.co.uk/find/category-is-Champagne+and+Sparkling+Wine/category-is-Champagne/category-is-Non-Vintage+Champagne/product-is-22218. Try it, it is truly gorgeous.