When to open champagne for the new year. New Year's rules

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Many people are familiar with the wish fulfillment technique, during which you need to have time to write your intention on a piece of paper, burn it and throw the ashes into a glass of drink. Moreover, it is necessary to complete everything before the end of the chiming clock. In reality, the technique is not so important as the correctly formulated thought-form. For example, you quickly carried out all the manipulations, but indicated something like “I want to get married” or “I want a lot of money.” Such a request to the Universe does not have the slightest chance of successful implementation. In general, it is better to think over this moment in advance so as not to get confused and not waste a magical minute on nonsense.

Rules for making a wish:

• avoid denials,
• do not use the words "I will" and "I want",
• don't mention other people
• do not limit performance.

Examples of successful wordings: “I am buying an apartment/car”, “I am getting married to a worthy man”, “I am slim, healthy and beautiful”, “I earn ... a month”, etc.

As for the ritual itself, you can follow the classical scheme: at exactly midnight, open champagne, pour it and perform the above actions with a piece of paper.

If there will be a lot of people at the holiday, and you are worried that you won’t have time to do everything to the end, do it differently. While the chimes are striking, make a wish to yourself and take a sip from the glass. At this point, try to apply visualization. It is advisable not to drink other alcoholic beverages until this sacred minute.

New Year's rites for those who do not drink champagne

If for some reason you do not drink alcohol, do not think that at midnight you will have nothing to do. Esotericists offer to use simple and effective rituals for the fulfillment of a dream.

Method number 1

On the eve of the holiday, make a paper airplane with your own hands. Write on it what you would most like to receive next year. When the chimes start to beat, open the window and launch the plane with the message up, repeating your wish.

Method number 2

Get a beautiful candle in white or golden color in advance. Prepare also a small piece of paper and a pen. At midnight, light a candle, put your intention in writing, and hold the leaf to the flame. You need to try to make sure that the paper burns out as much as possible and remains to smolder near the wick. The candle must burn to the end along with this ashes.

Method number 3

On the afternoon of December 31, take your favorite candy, open it and write a wish on the wrapper. Then return the confection to its original form and hang it on the Christmas tree. Under the chiming clock, you need to have time to eat candy, repeating to yourself what was written earlier. Keep the wrapper as a talisman for the whole next year.

New Year-tree-gifts-champagne... In many countries this has been an axiom for many years. Well, these cute bubbles are our favorite and the New Year is a great occasion for a bottle of a wonderful drink. We've already bought more than one.

Opening champagne

Champagne should be chilled first. No need in the freezer, the temperature of the bottle should be about 10 degrees. Cooling in the freezer, you will lose the bouquet and bubbles.

Serving champagne today can be quite democratic, but more familiar in buckets of ice and water.

We begin to open, we hold the bottle at an angle of about 45 degrees. And never shake. If you shake the bottle, put it back and wait, preferably with the neck turned away from people.

We open the bottle like a pro: we hold the cork - we twist the bottle. There should be no shots and fountains

Champagne glasses

Champagne glasses are not tulips, where even your lady's nose does not fit, but a normal stemmed glass, in which you can see the play of bubbles and enjoy the aroma of the bouquet. Wide glasses such as a bowl are categorically not suitable: you will not see a single bulge.

Pour into a glass, holding the glass at an angle so that the foam is noble, thin, this is not beer. The champagne glass should be held by the foot and for this reason it is also only two-thirds full. If you hold a glass of champagne by the bottom of the bowl, you can heat the drink and its taste will change.

Champagne is drunk both before meals and in the process.

Insidious and beautiful

Carbon dioxide, which gives this drink all its charm, increases the absorption of alcohol into the blood. Therefore, drinking champagne before other drinks, you can assume that the dose of alcohol will be higher than you think. So mixing champagne and strong alcohol is not worth it.

*By the way, the cork has nothing to do with the quality of the product inside the bottle. Traditional cork or plastic cork absolutely equally have no effect on the product inside. Since there are so many atmospheres of carbon dioxide rushing out inside that when the cork is not of very good quality, it can crumble when opened, ruining your holiday.

*Professionals believe that champagne-based cocktails are bad manners. Except maybe two or three true French ones.

Champagne Cocktail classic is a very French cocktail

We put a piece of sugar, preferably dark, into a flute glass, drip Angostura bitters on top, carefully pour 15 ml of cognac, and pour chilled champagne on top in a slow stream.

Almost all festive events are accompanied by drinking champagne. However, due to the fact that few people know how to properly open champagne, the festive can be spoiled. Bubbling foam from a bottle can refresh those present, and a bottle cap can break a chandelier or hit a guest. In addition, foaming champagne significantly loses its quality of taste. Therefore, knowing how to properly open a bottle of champagne can make you the center of attention at any celebration and add credibility to you.

How to open champagne without a shot?

Most often, champagne is opened in the most famous way - "hussar". However, this option is considered a sign of bad taste. When the bottle is opened correctly, a soft pop should be heard and a light smoke should be visible. Bartenders ideally own this way of uncorking bottles of champagne. They can give us recommendations on how to properly and accurately open champagne. Based on their advice, you should do this:

1. Drink before opening should be cooled to 6-8 degrees. This will help to safely open the bottle and improve the taste and aroma of the drink. To do this, put a bottle of champagne in a bucket of cold water and ice or on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. In a bucket of water, champagne will cool down in half an hour, and in the refrigerator - in 3-4 hours. Therefore, if there is no ice for cooling, it is necessary to give the drink the required temperature in advance. In no case should you cool the drink in the freezer, as this will lose its effervescent properties.
2. After the bottle of wine is removed from the refrigerator or a bucket of water, it should be wiped dry, wrapped in a towel or napkin. This is necessary in order to make it convenient to hold a bottle that is covered with condensate when it gets from a cold place to a warm one.
3. The bottle should be tilted. Before opening, the bottle must be tilted by about 40 degrees and to the side where there are no people - in case of unsuccessful opening. In a closed container of sparkling champagne, a pressure of 6-7 atmospheres is created, which is 2-3 times higher than the pressure in car tires. With the right inclination, the main pressure will be on the shoulders of the bottle, and not on the neck with the cork.
4. It is necessary to remove the foil and unwind the muzzle (wire). The muselet is always screwed in six turns. This must be done carefully, without shaking the bottle.
5. The main step in the guide on how to properly open a bottle of champagne is to remove the cork. It must be tightly clamped and then begin to rotate the bottle until the cork is released from clamping. Now you can tilt the bottle in order to release the gas. After that, remove the cork. A light pop should be heard and a gentle smoke should go. Sometimes the cork breaks. In this case, you will have to use a corkscrew.
6. Pour into glasses. Champagne is poured into glasses, slowly. Especially if it was poorly chilled. Sour dry champagne is poured into thin tall glasses, and sweet - into wide ones.

When is the right time to open champagne for the New Year?

There are no special traditions about when to open champagne on New Year's Eve. In this matter, proceed only from considerations of convenience. Since a bottle of champagne cannot be opened in a hurry, it is better to do this before the chiming clock for five to ten minutes. After carefully opening the bottle, the drink is poured into beautiful glasses, filling them by two thirds, and they are waiting for the chimes to start. With the first blows of the chimes, they make a guess

The main attributes of the New Year are the Christmas tree and, of course, the festive table, on which there must be a traditional drink - champagne. However, until now, many do not know how to properly open a bottle of foam, reports.

Aerobatics - to uncork it with a light pop, when a gentle smoke rises instead of foam.

But there are also a few more secrets. It turns out that champagne before the feast must be cooled to six to eight degrees. True, experts do not advise doing this with a freezer. Champagne is harmed and it can lose its effervescent charm. It is better to put the bottle in an ice bucket or on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for several hours. For those who do not have a bucket, you can simply put the bottle on the balcony.

Before uncorking, the bottle must be tilted at about 40-45 degrees and rested with the bottom on a hard surface.

There is a very high pressure in a bottle of sparkling wine - about 67 atmospheres. This is twice the pressure in a car tire. When tilted, the main impact of gases will fall on the shoulders of the bottle - the place where the neck begins. But if you keep the container straight, all the atmospheres will hit the cork.

How much to tilt the bottle is easy to determine visually: if the bottle is tilted correctly, the champagne will be about a centimeter away from the cork.

For a secure hold, the bottle can be wrapped with a napkin so that it does not slip out. When opening the champagne, it is important not to shake, otherwise the cork may shoot. Strong cotton looks impressive, but it says that sparkling wine is openly wrong. In addition, splashes can stain others. You need to twist not the cork, but the bottle.

Bang - and a cork bursts out of the bottle, followed by sweet foam that floods everything around ... Everyone can open champagne using the favorite method of "hussars". But shooting corks is not our method. Aerobatics is to open champagne with a light pop, when a gentle smoke rises from the bottle instead of foam.

How to open champagne according to all the rules of etiquette, tells and shows sommelier of the Blue Cat restaurant Anton Pavlov.

cool down

In order to successfully open a bottle, it must be well cooled in a cooler (champagne bucket), where cold water is poured and ice is poured. Cooling only in ice is less efficient. Under these conditions, the champagne will cool to the desired temperature (6-8 degrees) in about half an hour.

If time is short, you forgot to put champagne in the cooler before the holiday or guests just brought a bottle, the process can be accelerated. Method one: put in the freezer. But it harms champagne, from being in the freezer it can lose its fizzy charm. The second way is to add a few tablespoons of salt to the cooler. This will speed up the cooling process, and the champagne will be “ready” much faster.

Tilt

To open champagne, the bottle must be tilted at about 40 degrees. The fact is that there is a very high pressure in a bottle of sparkling wine, about 6-7 atmospheres. For comparison, in a car tire, the pressure is 2-3 atmospheres. If the bottle is tilted, then the main blow will fall on the shoulders, the place where the bottle neck begins. If held straight, all atmospheres will hit the cork.

And, of course, you should never point the neck of the bottle at people and breakable objects.

Rotate

First you need to remove the foil and the muzzle - the wire that holds the cork, it, by the way, is always twisted by 6 turns. Then firmly clamp the cork with one hand, and with the other - rotate the bottle, gradually swinging the cork. You feel that you have gone - tilt the bottle a little, and the gas descends. In the end, you open a bottle with a characteristic very light cotton, and smoke comes out of it.

Pour into a glass

This must be done slowly so that the foam does not rush over the edge. If the champagne is properly chilled, then everything will be fine. If it didn’t work out to cool, then it’s better to tilt the glass a little and pour the wine along its wall, also slowly.

If you are a connoisseur, gourmet and connoisseur, then you yourself know everything, and these tips will not be useful to you. They are rather for those who just want to choose a decent bottle of sparkling wine for reasonable money.

Champagne wines are only those produced in France, in the Champagne region. Real French champagne is very expensive, and if you are not ready to shell out 5 thousand or more per bottle, then it is better to turn your attention to sparkling wines from other countries. The New World, South Africa, Australia, California are at your service - all these countries produce sparkling wines using the same technology as in Champagne. And there is a good sparkling wine in an average store - 600-800 rubles. To be sure of the quality, look for the inscription on the label: méthode classique or méthode traditionnel. This means that sparkling wine is made according to classical French technology from the same grape varieties that are used in Champagne.

Very good Spanish sparkling - cava (cava) and Italian prosecco (prosecco). For them, other grape varieties are used (mostly local, autochthonous), and these wines are produced using other technologies, for the most part they are quite high quality and tasty. Many appreciate them even more than classic champagne wines.

There are also French sparkling - cremant (Cremant). This word is usually added on the label with the name of the area where the wine was produced: Crémant d'Alsase, that is, Cremant from Alsace, etc. Cremants are, of course, more expensive than sparkling New World ones, but they are protected by name, their production is strictly controlled by the French authorities, and in general - these are excellent wines, although not as hyped as champagnes.