Top 50 Best Champagne Accessories and Resources

"Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government." - Winston Churchill.

"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne." - John Meynard Keynes.

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right." - F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate . . . and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself." - Napoleon Bonaparte.

"I only drink champagne when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it - unless I'm thirsty." - Madame Lilly Bolinger.

• 5 things you should know about the champagne you'll drink tonight - The Verge.
• 8 Ways You're Probably Drinking Champagne Wrong - TIME Magazine.
• 9 Of The Best Champagne Cocktails To Serve This Holiday Season - Forbes.
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• 1907 Heidsieck & Co. Monopole Champagne GoÛt AmÉricain Baltic Wreck JÖnkÖping - Wikipedia.
• A wine-lover’s guide to Champagne - The Telegraph.
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• Alessi - wine coolers & ice buckets.
• Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt To Start New Champagne Partnership - "Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are beginning a new business partnership to start producing rosé champagne. It’s an extension of their successful Miraval rosé wine label in Provence."
• Aristocrat takes legal action as former erotic film star promotes champagne brand founded by his forefathers - The Telegraph.
• Artemest - "Bar Cabinets & Cool Accessories for the Connoisseur." A selection of stylish bar cabinets manufactured by some of the most talented cabinet makers in Italy and accessories any connoisseur would fall for - crystal whisky bottles, silver ice buckets and champagne holders, and exquisite decanters in Murano glass.
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• Avenue de Champagne - famous street located in Épernay, the 'Capital of champagne', in the Champagne-Ardenne Région of France. Its name derives from the presence of many leading champagne producers such as Moët et Chandon, Mercier and De Castellane. Residents say that this avenue is the most expensive in the world, more so than the Champs-Élysées in Paris, because of the millions of bottles of champagne stored in the kilometres of chalk cellars beneath it.
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• BACCARAT - champagne flutes & coupes.
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• BACCARAT CHAMPAGNE COOLER - Harcourt champagne bucket.
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• Baccarat Crystal Champagne flutes & coupes Glasses - since 1764. "The World's Finest Crystal." A symbol of beauty and crystallized perfection, Baccarat has been a celebration of transfigured senses since the Age of Enlightenment.
• Balthazar - 12-litre champagne or wine bottle.
• BLIND WINE TASTE TESTING - in marketing, a Blind Taste Test is often used as a tool for companies to compare their brand to another brand. To ensure impartial judgment of a wine, it should be served blind - that is, without the taster(s) having seen the label or bottle shape.
• BOTTLED & BOXED - "Champagne delivery next day in the U.K. Worldwide in 2 to 3 days."
• CHAMPAGNE - Wikipedia.
• Champagne Cheat Sheet - The New York Times.
• Champagne In Crisis Talks - Grapes Might Be Destroyed Due To Poor Sales - "Champagne producers have been hit hard by the pandemic–fewer people are able to celebrate occasions and come together in groups where champagne is traditionally drunk. A crisis meeting has been called for August 18th, where decisions will have to be made about whether to destroy excess grapes or sell them to make hand sanitizer–both of which would have been unthinkable one year ago."
• Champagne in space: High-tech bottle gets test flight - "Future space tourists may be sipping champagne in orbit if a uniquely designed twin-chambered bottle with 'egg cup' glasses proves a success."
• Champagne on the Rocks? It’s This Summer’s Drink - The New York Times.
• CHAMPAGNE PRODUCERS - Wikipedia.
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• Champagne Room - at The Connaught hotel, Mayfair, London, U.K. "A hidden gem, at the heart of the hotel, the Champagne Room is a beautiful yet intimate place, perfect for drinks for two or a party of 25. Choose from a selection of eight prestige champagnes, fine wines and rare spirits."
• CHAMPAGNE SERVING - "On the Losses of Dissolved CO₂ during Champagne Serving." Rules for pouring champagne correctly.
  
• Charles Heidsieck celebrates 150th anniversary with the Collection Crayères auction at Christie's - The Telegraph.
• ComitÉ Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne | CIVC - since 1941. "Champagne Only Comes From Champagne, France." Organisation grouping the actors of the Champagne production and trade - growers, cooperatives and merchants - under the direction of the government.
• Co-op own-brand champagne better than MoËt, says Which? - "Supermarket’s bubbly deemed as good as Mumm and best value for Christmas."
• CUVÉE - Wikipedia.
• CUVÉE CHAMPAGNE - eHow.
• Dom PÉrignon offers the ultimate dining experience with Alain Ducasse at the ChÂteau de Versailles - The Telegraph.
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• Dom PÉrignon RosÉ 1959 Vintage - reaches a record price of US$84,700 at a historic rare champagne auction in New York.
• Drinking from shoes - has historically been performed as both a bringer of good fortune and as a hazing punishment. Drinking champagne from a lady's slipper became a symbol of decadence in the early 20th century.
• EPERNAY - "Pays de Champagne." Official website.
• F1 signs deal with $3000-per-bottle Carbon champagne brand - motorsport.com.
• FINE Champagne Magazine - the first champagne magazine in the world.
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• FOUET - (also in French: moser, mosser, batteur, agitateur or moussoir. English: swizzle stick). A slender (gold) tube from which retractable spines emerge in a whisk-broom effect which can eliminate the carbonated effect from the wine, when briskly agitated in the glass.
• Glass of Bubbly - since 2011. "Champagne & Sparkling Wine news, views & expert advice website and Global Magazine."
• Growers & producers at odds in France's 'champagne wars' - "Coronavirus has hit the industry hard, with division over how to respond."
• Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward - The New York Times.
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• Henry Tuke - Damascus Steel & Sterling Silver Champange Sabre: £20,000.
• Here's Why You Should Think Twice Before Refrigerating Your Champagne - HuffPost Life.
• HISTORY OF CHAMPAGNE - Wikipedia.
• How to Make Bubbly Punch - The New York Times.
• JEROBOAM - a wine bottle holding the equivalent of four normal bottles (approximately 104 ounces). Also called: double-magnum.
• KATHARINE POOLEY - champagne buckets.
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• KRUG PICNIC TRUNK - by Pinel & Pinel.
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• LAGUIOLE Champagne Saber
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• Linley - Somerset Champagne Swizzlestick.
• List of Champagne houses - Wikipedia
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• Louis Vuitton Champagne Case Monogram - "Celebrates the Maison’s art de vivre. A functional layout fuses with creativity to create an elegant and noble case."
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• Louis Vuitton X Dom Perignon Limited Edition Champagne Carrier - price: US$1,780. Collector's item. Limited numbers of 1,000 pieces were manufactured in year 2000.
• Maison Veuve Clicquot launches Extra Brut Extra Old - The Telegraph.
• Meet Madame Clicquot: the trail blazing widow who changed the face of champagne - The Telegraph.
• Most Expensive Champagnes in the World - Forbes.
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• N'Damus London - since 2006. "Champagne & Wine Holders." Handmade leather bottle holders offers a safe and stylish way to carry champagne and wine to dinner or as a luxury dinner gift.
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• Nebuchadnezzar - "15 Litres of Champagne and are equal to 20 Standard Champagne Bottles."
• Never put your champagne in the fridge - The Telegraph.
• Perrier-JouËt reopens Maison Belle Epoque - Vintage art nouveau.
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• PHILIP STEIN - wine wands.
• Plunge Champagne in ice bucket for 40 minutes to create the perfect cork 'pop' - The Telegraph.
• PRESTIGE CUVÉE - "A Guide to Deluxe Champagne." The Cult of Champagne. Gayot.
• Prosecco no longer considered a luxury, experts say - The Telegraph.
• Rehoboam - a wine bottle, used especially for champagne, holding the equivalent of six normal bottles or 4.8 liters (5 quarts, approximately 156 ounces).
• SABRAGE - technique for opening a Champagne bottle with a saber, used for ceremonial occasions. The wielder slides the saber along the body of the bottle to break the entire neck away, leaving only the base of the bottle, open and ready to pour.
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• Saint-Louis Cristallerie - founded in 1586. The oldest & one of the most prestigious manufacturer of Glassmaking in Europe. Champagne & ice buckets.
• Shoey - the act of drinking an alcoholic beverage from a shoe.
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• SIEGER by FÜRSTENBERG - "Sip of Gold." Champagne goblet is a combination of wafer-thin porcelain and the finest precious metal.
• SodaStream’s new concentrate lets you mix your own champagne - engadget.
• SPARKLING WINE - Wikipedia.
• Supermarkets' own-brand champagne beats French houses in Which? test - "Morrisons’ Adrien Chopin Brut tops list followed by Waitrose’s Brut, while Moët & Chandon and Veuve Clicquot trail."
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• SWAINE ADENEY BRIGG - Double Champagne / Wine Bar." Uniquely handcrafted portable bar covered in bridle leather, lined in green bonded leather and complemented with solid brass fittings.
• The Champagne fairs - fairs that were held in the city of Troyes during the festival of Saint-Vincent (9-15 July), and Saint Remi (1st or 2nd November).
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• The Champagne Key - "The $100,000 Solid Gold Champagne Opener." Transforms the opening of a champagne bottle, from an art, into a science. A precision tool, that incorporates patented technology, specifically designed to allow the cork to be used as an easily controlled valve, for a perfect open every time.
• The Finest Bubble - "Prestige Champagnes & English Sparkling Wines." Same day Champagne delivery.
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• The White Company London - since 1993. "Everything you need for stylish living - mainly in white." It’s easy to raise a glass with this elegant new champagne flute. Made from quality crystal, it’s just the thing to celebrate in style. Just add something sparkly.
• THE WORLD'S MOST COVETED CHAMPAGNES - Forbes.
• The Year of Champagnes You’ve Never Heard Of - The New York Times.
• Treasure trove of 120 year-old Pol Roger champagne unearthed from collapsed cellar - The Telegraph.
• Ultra-Exclusive $3,000 Champagne Comes Wrapped In Carbon - Forbes.
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• Varga Art Crystal - handcrafted in Budapest Hungary by master glass Artisans. Champagne buckets.
• Veuve Clicquot & Yayoi Kusama Come Together For A Limited-Edition Bottle & Sculpture - "Champagne and dots. The connection seems disparate at first, but it’s a connection Veuve Clicquot quickly realized when they brought on artist Yayoi Kusama to design a new collector’s edition bottle featuring the artist’s favorite subject, the dot, which she uses as a bridge to champagne’s most famous quality, the bubble."
• Vintage - Wikipedia.
• Vintage Champagne - Decanter.
• Why France's champagne buble has burst - "France's champagne industry goes flat amid pandemic. It's been an exceptional year in Champagne."
• Wine bottle sizes - Wikipedia.
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• Winston Churchill drank 42,000 bottles of champagne Between 1908 & 1965 - 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways.
• Why Do We Celebrate with Champagne? - LiveScience.
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• World of Diamonds Group - swizzle stick with 20 white diamonds on an 18-Karat gold spinning globe as its crown.
• World’s Best Champagne - According To The Experts - Forbes.