The brainchild of Monsieur Perignon (he, the French abbot, is considered the legendary creator of the sparkling wine is visible from Champagne) should be present at any wedding. But the trouble is - to choose among hundreds of varieties and brands is difficult. Moreover, there are two types: one that is drunk, and one that simply needs to stand on the table as a decoration and a necessary element of serving a wedding party.
We will talk about how and why to choose champagne for the wedding. So…
Not for drink, but for beauty
The first wedding drink - champagne - should stand on the table exclusively for beauty. Heresy!? Not at all. In the Russian tradition, both the bride and groom rely on a bottle - exclusively “shop bulo”. Modern organizers of wedding banquets interpret the tradition a little differently: the bottle becomes a kind of symbol of the newlywed. As a result, non-drinkable champagne is decorated with everything you can: from beads and flower bouquets to bright prints with photographs of young people. In the latter case, the real name bottles are obtained. The cost of decoration is more than paid for by the fact that any champagne can be chosen for presence on the table - if only the shape of the bottle was classic.
Wedding drink
The second category of wedding champagne is what will be drunk. Since it is with a glass of champagne that the feast begins, the effect of its subsequent mixing with more strong drinks - vodka and cognac should be somewhat smoothed out, that is, bring the degree of the first toast as close as possible to the degrees of subsequent ones. One option looms - dry champagne (brut).
It is brut (despite the passion of domestic and a number of foreign manufacturers to create dozens of varieties of semisweet champagne for one or two dry ones) that is worth looking for.
Domestic or imported
No doubt - there is simply no better candidate than French champagne for filling wedding glasses. However, among domestic manufacturers, one can also find quite decent options. For example, St. Petersburg champagne Marleson costs mere pennies - many times surpassing both classical Soviet champagne and a number of brands combined under the common brand of Moscow champagne.
Abrau-Durso was and remains the leader among domestic manufacturers. Brut, of course. Moreover, due to the tradition of the small number of "champagne" toasts, it is not worth saving - the collection and vintage varieties of Abrau can be bought even for the most modest wedding.
Alas, there is no such clarity with manufacturers from France - there are dozens and hundreds of them. Moreover, rare champagne is able to reach our country without increasing its value by five to six times. Ideal for buying - the average cost of the brand, which can be purchased in duty free. In shops that are no longer subject to customs regulations and livestock excise taxes, you can buy really decent champagne at more than an affordable price.
As a guide, you can use the menu, which is supposed for the wedding table. So, a table on which fish and seafood predominates is better to “equip Chablis or Sancerre, and the meat table will be ideal so that the glasses are filled with Delsas or Saint-Amor.