Champagne Tips and Tricks for New Year's Eve
Tips from a Matt Prentice restaurants expert on everything picking the right glassware to serving it at just the right temperature.
Ready for New Year's Eve? Eric Djordjevic, chief operating officer of Matt Prentice Restaurant Group, has a five Champagn tips and tips for party-givers and partygoers: By "clean" I don't mean free of dirt and debris, but instead free of soap residue, as many liquid detergents don't rinse off completely. Aside from imparting undesired lemon and lavender scents in your wine, they will cause Champagne to go flat faster or prevent your wine from adhering to the glass and releasing aromatic qualities. Tip: For hard to clean decanters use a nonscented denture cleaner. After a little soak and good rinse, your crystal is good as new. Each wine has various qualities and aromas; science has proven that these molecular compounds release …
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Ardy
4:01 pm on Saturday, December 31, 2011
Villa is tremendously yummy. Great with top-shelf Vodka or on it's own. #4 above is the most important. IMHO, you can really ruin the flavor of the bubbly if you send the cork off to the ceiling. Perhaps most important; don't skimp on food and H2O. Bubbly will dehydrate you and an empty tummy is the right way to a Keith Moon solo in yer head in the morning. We're a country root in indulgence. … more ›