A bottle of champagne is an indispensable attribute of a holiday.

It has become a tradition to celebrate holidays in a noisy company. And one of the main, the New Year, can not be imagined without champagne. At midnight, under the chiming clock, salutes a bottle of champagne, announcing the beginning of next year. Any new business is held together by a glass of a solemn drink. Champagne brings luck, sending ships to sail. The birth of a new family occurs under the march of Mendelssohn and splashes of sparkling wine. Enjoying a sparkling drink, no one thinks about when and where the first bottle of champagne appeared.

Homeland of sparkling wine is the province of Champagne, located in France. Experimenting with grape wine, by double fermentation, it was possible to obtain a new recipe for the preparation of a carbonated drink. The drink was bottled with thick glass, tightly sealed with cork stoppers. He was called champagne in honor of the area in which he was received. This drink quickly became popular in France. Expensive wine was a sign of luxury. A bottle of champagne was considered a wonderful gift.

Thanks to its immense popularity, champagne began to be produced not only in France. Winemakers of Italy, Spain and Russia have established the production of sparkling wine in an accelerated way. This method involves fermenting wine in special tanks. The sparkling drink is ready for use within a month.

Pour wine into bottles. The standard size of a bottle of champagne is 750 ml. The second type, with a capacity of 1.5 liters, is usually called "magnum." This capacity is considered better.

The most common is the standard bottle of champagne. But this does not exclude the possibility of using other volumes of containers for bottling a sparkling drink.

In the so-called quarters (187.5 or 200 ml) bottled champagne for airlines and nightly entertainment. For restaurants, a capacity of 375 ml is considered convenient. There is another, less common packaging for champagne wines. So, the biggest bottle of champagne is thirty-liter. It holds forty standard bottles of sparkling beverage.

The drink in the bottle is under pressure. This condition should be taken into account when uncorking wine. To reduce the pressure before consumption, the bottle of champagne is cooled. Do not shake it, otherwise after opening the cork will fly out of the bottle, and the contents will pour out a fountain. To prevent this effect, the carbonated drink is opened slowly. Hold the cork hand, gradually loosen the metal clamp. Having issued a quiet cotton, the cork will leave the bottle. Spill the champagne wine into tall wine glasses immediately after uncorking.

The main indicator that determines the taste of wine is the sugar content. Depending on the percentage of its content, champagne wines can be divided into dry, semi-dry, sweet and semisweet varieties. Each type of sparkling drink has its own characteristics. Dry wines are usually consumed before eating. A bottle of champagne semi-dry varieties is perfectly combined with meat and fish dishes. Semisweet and sweet wine perfectly complement the dessert.