We love Madonna’s favourite champagne
There’s nothing quite as delicious and festive as popping open a bottle of champagne! Finding it hard to choose? Not at all—sometimes you can blindly trust the taste of someone famous. Like good old Madonna. Her favourite is Deutz Champagne. But sommeliers, Michelin chefs and we are fans too.
And that has everything to do with Deutz’s speciality: champagne with a light-footed, elegant mousse. Around two and a half million bottles are produced every year, led by Deutz Brut Classic. A wonderfully soft and refined champagne. Not sugary and commercially loud, but rather fresh and restrained, with delightfully tiny bubbles dancing merrily across your tongue.
Treasures in the cellar
Deutz is one of the so-called grandes marques of Champagne; trading houses that also include other major names such as Pol Roger, Moët & Chandon, Piper Heidsieck, Krug and Salon. It is located next to Champagne house Bollinger and was founded in 1838. The vineyards lie directly behind the château, as does the spectacular, three-kilometre-long and deepest cellar in the Champagne region.
A cigar with it?
Cigarettes are a thing of the past, but when we’re in a mischievous mood, we occasionally light up a fine cigar. And we prefer to do that with champagne. Champagne? Absolutely—it works! The ultimate combination with a bottle of Deutz Brut Classic is Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure No. 2 (€ 9.40). The champagne’s light sweetness pairs wonderfully with this fine, mild Cuban cigar.
Madonna’s fridge
Won the New Year’s Eve lottery? Celebrate with a bottle of Amour de Deutz. Of all Deutz’s champagnes, this is the most luxurious (a bottle costs €149.95). You get it: Madonna’s entire fridge is stocked with it. It is, after all, one of the most alluring champagnes you can buy. An extra fun detail: there’s a little chain under the muselet (crown cap).
Fries with it
Since top chefs such as Sergio Herman and Niven Kunz started focusing on fries, the classic portion of chips has become completely fashionable again. Suddenly, serving a glass of bubbles alongside them doesn’t seem strange at all. Especially when you know that those bubbles cleanse your palate. The acidity in the bubbly also cuts nicely through the fat of the fries. Perhaps the best culinary idea for 1 January: have fries with Deutz for breakfast. You’ll be over your hangover in one fell swoop.
A bottle of Deutz Brut Classic costs € 37.50 at de Bijenkorf.
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