Or, we all think we're supermodels getting drunk on champagne before, during, and after a fashion show.

What? And give up my Boone's Farm? I don't think so!

People bought champagne for the "Millennium party" in 1999, showing that they couldn't count and were a year off.

People are buying champagne for the "Bush retirement party" in 2007, showing that they still can't count and are a year off again.

I still only buy it for New Years and the occasional other celebration.

Of course, I still only get a cheap $4 bottle of Andre (the Brut... even their Extra Dry is too sweet)

Chin-chin!

@DrGirlfriend: Dude, champagne has way too much sugar/calories. If you're an actual model, you avoid that shit like the plague. Not to mention that the carbonation causes bloating.

My mom, my friends and I all drink relatively inexpensive sparkling wine just because we enjoy it.

It's good! Fizzy wine! If you can hack the headaches, that is.

@kantwait: Unfortunately, they do have a reputation of getting smashed on champagne.

Jay-Z is going to be Pissed.

Champagne = 21-29 calories/ounce
Table wine = 18-20 calories/ounce
Source: [wines.com]

Doesn't sound THAT bad. Looks like the liqueurs are where the serious damage is.

@timmus

but if you are drinking wine, you are drinking a whole lot more ounces than if you are drinking liquor - the usual measure of one serving is 5 ounces of wine vs 2 ounces of liquor.

Then again, if you are mixing that liquor with coke or juice, you are adding even more calories

I just can't imagine drinking before a show; runways are 3 feet high and if you slip, you're definitely going to take a hard fall.

Nothing better than a mimosa at a Sunday Brunch. And cheap champagne tastes just as good mixed with OJ as the pricey stuff does.

So are they talking real champagne or any sparkling wine? Things that are not technically champagne are pretty cheap.

I have had too many really awful cheap champagnes or sparkling wines. The club we were at last New Years passed out some of the worst "champagne" I have ever had in my life. It tasted like a can and vinegar.

...yuck

@bohemian: Champagne is sparkling wine that comes from the region of Champagne, France. Anything else is 'just' sparkling wine.

There's plenty of sparkling wines that are just as good as Champagne.

I can dig it.

After considering our lovely President... you'd drink anything alcoholic too.

eh. I like a good beer just fine.

@SOHP101

Actually, there are a TON of sparkling wines better than champange. The people who grow chanpagne grapes get paid more per ton than any other growers in any other region of the world. Most of them grow and then sell to grand houses like Veuve Clicquot and Perrier-Jouët, and they get paid anyway, so why put any extra effort into growing them for quality.
There is a growing market for grower's champagne. Grower's champagne is composed of grapes grown on one estate, the estate of the person who harvests, ferments, and bottles the stuff with their name on the bottle. They control quality directly and have a name that is not as "made" as the big houses on the label. Much more drive to bottle good stuff. You casn pick up a bottle of Rene Geoffroy Brut Rose for a little bit more than a bottle of Veuve Yellow Label, and significantly less than a bottle of Grand Dame, and it'll will blow either one out of the water. Gaston Chiquet is another good one, and a quick google search should turn up many more that might save you a buck and be better.
Champagne is not just for celebrating.

4% is enough to compare something to a frenzy?

If you get a 4% raise, do you consider that in line with inflation or has your boss gone crazy on an employee spending frenzy?

@ryan: Miller High Life, the Champaign of Beers! :)

or this is a stupid article because at 4% growth in something is meaningless

mmmmmmmmmmmm bubbly

that's because it's delicious.

@oneswellfoop: I don't know what led you to believe that I thought different from your post, since my last sentence agrees completely with your feelings toward the stuff.

seriously, 4%?

for every 25 bottles of champagne purchased in 2006, 26 were purchased in 2007? for every 25 bottles of champagne purchased in 2006, 1 more was purchased in 2007?

no big deal, no big trend. sounds like population growth, if anything.

i like martini and rossi and ballatore. i know their the cheap, but they are so tasty!

For some reason this year I was givven 3 bottles of Champagne/sparkling wine. Thing is I don't drink are my friends and family trying to tell me I need to drink....?