Champagne is a drink that people associate with a holiday, fun, joy. They prefer to drink it at special solemn moments of life and to cheer up those who are at a festive feast. However, this drink is not suitable for all dishes and products that abound in the festive table. Fans of champagne will find it useful to know what it should be served with, so as not to violate the table etiquette and the inner content of the drink.
Products unsuitable for champagne
Champagne, according to the rules of etiquette, is served before eating, as an aperitif drink. However, if there are only dessert or some dishes on the table, it can also be served during the meal.
Chocolate beats off the true flavor of the sparkling beverage, although it has been argued that this sweetness is best suited to it. But if champagne is still available with sweets, for example, with its white variety, then it does not go well with spicy herbs such as onions or garlic.
The same can be said about smoked, salted fish or meat of any kind, including boiled, smoked, salted, fried. It is better to serve dessert wines with these dishes, but not sweet or semi-sweet champagne. Under no circumstances should an effervescent drink be served with the first course.
Second courses with champagne
These are the dishes related to the second, quite suitable for their joint use with champagne. This is a boiled bird.
Canapes with caviar of any kind, light salads dressed with vegetable oils, cheese sandwiches also go well with a sparkling drink. By the way, pink champagne is excellently used with pieces of cheese.
Ideally, this drink goes well with seafood, which, in combination with it, reveal its own special taste.
Desserts and sparkling
Any kind of nuts, unleavened biscuits, sweets with a delicate unsaturated taste, such as "rafaello", marshmallow, marshmallow, airy cakes, meringues go well with an effervescent drink in glasses. But exclude the combination of champagne with sugary oriental sweets on the table.
Fruit is the best offer among desserts for a noble drink. Some berries, especially strawberries, go well with it. But not currants or cherries.
Ice cream dessert will be a great addition to any kind of sparkling drink.
What else should you know?
Champagne is usually served chilled, placed in an ice bucket. Add a little water to such a bucket so that the ice cubes quickly cool the bottle. But don't add ice to the sparkling glass. Ice will not change the taste of the drink for the better.
In order not to be mistaken in choosing a product that would go well with champagne, always compare its nobility with the nobility of the dish that you are going to serve with it. Then there will be no mistake, and the combination of the drink and products for it will be ideal.
