3x Champagne on the rocks
A guaranteed summer hit and the most festive refreshment on hot days: champagne with ice. And we don’t mean ordinary champagne with ice added, but the special, sweeter sur glace champagnes, which you drink from large wine glasses filled with ice. And with which you can vary endlessly. We selected the three tastiest ones.
Sur glace champagnes are sweeter than brut champagnes (the most common champagnes). And sugar in champagne works like spices in a recipe. You can accentuate specific aromas and play with the flavour. You do this by filling a very large wine glass with ice cubes and Veuve Clicquot Rich, then adding a slice of cucumber (fresh!), a strip of red, yellow and green bell pepper (spicy) or even Earl Grey tea (surprisingly delicious!).
An aquarium of a wine glass, lots of ice, nothing more and nothing less. A delicious first impression at a garden party, ideal on the boat, refreshing to sip between barbecue courses.
Moët was the first to decide to add ice to their (sweet) champagne. They drew inspiration from the Côte d’Azur. There, ordering a ‘Piscine’ was the most normal thing in the world: bubbles with ice cubes. In the beginning, people in Champagne disapproved. Because ice in their noble drink was absolutely not done. By now, the entire bubbly community is cool with it. Fill a generous glass with ice and pour over the sweet Moët Ice Impérial. For a fruit explosion: add some strawberries. A slightly fresher version? Add mint leaves and lime zest. With a kick: ginger.
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