Angela Lansbury with a Champagne glass containing Champagne on New Year's eve, 2021 (actually after midnight and already January 2022). Photo by Trevor Sharot.
I was wondering whether I was stating the obvious when I described a Champagne glass and bottle.
Champagne comes from the French region of Champagne.
However, I was asked about Champagne by a Sri Lankan engineering student. He was part of a group of us from an online only Toastmasters club meeting online on New Year's Eve 2021.
He asked,
'What does Champagne taste like? We don't drink it in Sri Lanka. And we don't celebrate New Year. Our New year is lunar and it will be on April 14th (in 2022).'
Champagne Flavours
What does Champagne taste like? Nothing much, to me. Expert wine tasters will say that this one smells of bread or yeast. I taste a lemony after taste lingering in the mouth. After reading the notes on the Champagne, my husband tastes more flavours, but wonders if this is auto-suggestion. If so, well and good. Just read the notes to enjoy more aroma, and taste.
The magical effect is the fun of the bubbles, and getting tipsy, not quite drunk, happy and tired.
I like the sweeter Prosecco for flavour. I am a typical woman, and British, and of a certain age, my tastes rooted in the (nineteen) Sixties.
Champagne is dry. The word brut, French, sounds like brute, meaning dry.
The opposite of doux, literally soft, but, in the context of wine, sweet. Or sec, sweet wine.
Looking at the label of the bottle, this Champagne is Laurent-Perrier.
Angela with Laurent-Perrier Champagne bottle on New Year's Eve. Photo by Trevor Sharot.
The Champagne Glass
The glass is not a tulip, more like a flute. The company Reidel produces glasses for red and white wine and organizes tastings where you try drinking the same wine from different shaped glasses.
I am small, but with a big nose. So, for me, glasses with a narrow top are a nuisance.
Look at that Champagne bottle again. It has a cap designed to keep the fizz in.
Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne
The Author
About the Author Angela Lansbury
BIOGRAPHY
Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5
The Author of several books including Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.
Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com
dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com
translateforfun.blogspot.com
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President
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Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;
Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;
Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.
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Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.
Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.
Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.
Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.
Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.
Language and speech workshops in Singapore.
Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.
Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.
Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.
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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.
Quick Quotations
Who Said What When
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