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Champagne is a great present for celebrations including birthdays and Christmas.

Champagne is an alcoholic sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of wine to effect carbonation (that's the bubbles to you!).

Why should you celebrate with champagne?

Champagne is an amazing drink - it's got an amazing taste and is known as bubbly for a reason! Serving great champagne in posh glasses is the traditional way to toast celebrations.

Define - To toast - is the act of raising a glass and drinking in honor of or to the health of a person or thing. It's carried out at weddings by everyone being given a glass of champagne and being asked to raise their glasses and saying in unison "to the bride and groom" - or other similar phrases.

At birthday parties it's popular to toast the (adult)person celebrating their birthday! Toasting doesn't happen at children's parties!

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Brands of champagne available at Sparkling Direct

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Dom Perignon
Lanson
Laurent Perrier
Louis Roederer
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Giving champagne as a present is a wonderful idea. It's a lovely drink that people often don't think to buy for themself. If you're lucky and they open champagne at the party then it makes the party more exciting somehow. There's a wonderful noise that comes with the cork coming out of the bottle and the overspilling of champagne is a terrible waste! The first car race celebrated with champagne was the 1967 24 Hours Le Mans

Champagne is used to celebrate at the end of Grand Prix's and the drivers are given huge bottles

"Non-vintage", means that it is a blended product of grapes from multiple vintages. Most champagne produced these days is non-vintage

Sparkling wines and champagnes have high levels of antioxidant polyphenols which are supposed to be good for the brain!

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How sweet is champagne? - the more sugar added after the stage 2 fermentation stage the sweeter the champagne will be

* Brut Natural or Brut Zéro (less than 3 grams of sugar per liter)
* Extra Brut (less than 6 grams of sugar per liter)
* Brut (less than 15 grams of sugar per liter)
* Extra Sec or Extra Dry (12 to 20 grams of sugar per liter)
* Sec (17 to 35 grams of sugar per liter)
* Demi-Sec (33 to 50 grams of sugar per liter)
* Doux (more than 50 grams of sugar per liter)

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