Wedding Champagne

It was not anything against my wedding party or even my guests, but at our wedding, in 2015, I ordered special Champagne for my new bride and I. Sure, the rest of the guests had some great stuff, handpicked by myself. But, my new wife and I had my favorite bottle of Champagne to toast the night.

You may be thinking it was the 2010 Dom or the 2012 Cristal, but no. It was a non-vintage Champagne. A Champagne from my favorite Champagne house. A Champagne house that also owns property in California and makes some outstanding sparkling wine as well. The Champagne we toasted the evening was none other (if you did not already see the cover photo) Taittinger Rosé.

I just adore this Champagne. It is crisp yet dry. It is fruity yet reserved. It is colorful yet clear.

It is everything I want in a wine. Sure, I am partial to sparkling wine, while many are not. Sure I favor the rosé from Tavel while many prefer Provence. However, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a better wine for under $100.

Since I chose the wine, my wife chose the glasses. I am honestly not a fan or flutes or even coupe style glasses. For those that did not know, the coupe glasses were designed from the breast or Marie Antoinette. Fun fact for sure.

That being said, I always felt the flutes were too narrow to stick my nose in. Sure, it preserves the bubbles (arguable the only point to them, but I just always felt the purpose of the flute was to look pretty and not drink well. Not too dissimilar to a sports car. The goal is to look pretty not drive across town.

The coupe glasses release the bubbles too quickly and are impossible to aerate without spilling 3/4 the glass.

I truly prefer to pour my Champagne in a wider, white wine glass. It allows me to aerate, sniff, swirl and taste with little to no issue.

Now, all that being said, the goal of the wedding is truly to look pretty and make memories and the glasses my wife chose did exactly that. She picked out the most sparkly of sparkling glasses. We drank the Taittinger Rosé from two Swarovski Crystal Flutes and the pictures do not do them any justice at all.

Every year, we drink some bubbly from these glasses. Though used but once a year, every time we pop the cork and pour the Champagne we are taken back to that very night. In fact, in our wedding video, they videographer captured my cousin dancing with the box. To this day, we and he do not know why he was doing this. Maybe he was guarding our crystal flutes?

This year was our 8th wedding anniversary and I picked up a bottle of Taittinger Rosé in order to toast in our Swarovski Flutes.

I believe Rob Lowe said it best as Benjamin in Wayne’s World “actually all champagne is French, it's named after the region. Otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Americans of course don't recognize the convention so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white champagne, even though by definition they're not.”

To be honest, most of the world, after a few lawsuits have recognized Champagne only comes from the region of Champagne however there are a few wineries that have been grandfathered in. So Benjamin was kinda correct, but not entirely.

Happy Anniversary to my lovely bride.

Cheers.