Nemesis_Enforcer

snoop-blog

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.

Busybyeski

SOhp101

AbstractConcept

overbysara

elislider

humphrmi

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?

reykjavik

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.

oneswellfoop

rmeehan17

STrRedWolf

floydianslip6

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

SOhp101

no.no.notorious

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.

bohemian

TSS

kantwait

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

madanthony

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

timmus

hn333

DrGirlfriend

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

Smackdown

kantwait

ConsumptionJunkie

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

Trae

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

KJones

Grrrrrrrrr

DrGirlfriend