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Here are some great tips on how to
chill Champagne so that it keeps its wonderful flavour
and longevity.
How to
chill Champagne to enhance
flavour?
Chilling your Champagne wines in
the freezer will ruin their aromas and flavours, so plan ahead
with buckets of ice and coolers for chilling.
The Champenois
(Champenois is a language spoken by a minority of people
in Champagne in France) often use large coolers that take
several bottles at a time to chill their Champagne wines.
How to chill Champagne?
In a Champagne bucket: A bottle from
your cellar plunged into a mixture of water and ice should
reach the right temperature in 15 to 20 minutes.
In the refrigerator: Lie the bottle
down on the bottom shelf for three or four hours before
serving; you can leave it there even longer, provided that the
temperature remains constant; this way you will always have a
ready chilled bottle to hand.
The Right Temperature
Champagne is best drunk chilled but
never iced.
The younger and livelier the Champagne,
the cooler it should be served (8șC). A mature or vintage
Champagne will be perfect at 10șC. Over-chilling will mean
that the wine is too cold to release its aromas and
flavours.
Article on How to Chill Champagne
taken from Le
Champagne.com.
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