Anyone got a bottle of champagne handy?

[NazNomad]

... if so, could you pretty please measure the diameter of the top of the 'muselet' (the cage/cap thingy).

I have to make a wine butler but for champagne and it's gotta be a bigger hole than usual.

Thanks in advance. :-D

 

[n0legs]

The one I have here, traditional cork and caged, measures 43mm at the widest point.

 

[sunnybob]

wow, size really does matter! Mine is only 35mm

 

[NazNomad]

Excellent, thanks guys.

 

[n0legs]

wow, size really does matter! Mine is only 35mm

:lol:
Mine would be a a little smaller, but it seems the twist to secure the cage might not be the neatest. I'll get drunk on it later to confirm my suspicions.

 

[Claymore]

Champagne! never had you down for a champers drinker Naz? 9-)
Give a local whisky any day lol

 

[sunnybob]

'course mine is cold at the moment, that might account for the size disparity.

 

[NazNomad]

I made the hole 44mm in the end ... Well, in the centre, technically.

It's a last minute gift request for a friend of a friend. Nothing pretty buy at least it's functional. They can carry the honeymoon snacks AND the drinks in one trip now. :-D

 

[woodpig]

Veuve Clicquot is 37mm. :wink:

 

[NazNomad]

I rather have sparking apples than grapes, if truth be told.

 

[Keithie]

we collect our cider in demijohns or buckets (literally) that we take to the farm to fill up ...bucket is just over a foot across, but it already has its own carry handle ...good design really.

 

[Jonzjob]

That looks good, but what is it and what does it do?

I'd rather have the stuff the champoo was designed from. Blanquette de Limoux. It's about 1/3rd the price of champoo and unless you get a VERY top job it's better. B de L has a history about 100 + years longer than the expensive stuff, 1530 as opposed to the late 1600s, and the story goes that the bloke, Don Perisher (something like that), saw and tasted the Blanquette and took the idea back up north. The basic difference seems to be that the champoo lot had a better advertising campagne and then could charge a LOT more?? :twisted: So the idea that Don P 'invented' shampoo is not totally true me-thinks :mrgreen:

 

[RogerS]

Priodas Hapus ?

I'm not familiar with that vintage. Is it very dry ? :wink:

 

[Phil Pascoe]

England and New Zealand make better fizz than most Champagne. The supermarket brands esp. Lidl and Aldi regularly come out better on blind tastings than many "good" brands.

 

[Harbo]

It was the English that developed Sparkling Champagne as the French didn't like it - they considered it was a mistake in the wine making process The English developed the thicker stronger bottles and the use of corks - it was their increasing consumption of it that eventually lead to the drink becoming a major industry in the 1800's.
We drank a £120 bottle of Dom Perignon at Christmas and you certainly could tell the difference.
ALDI sell a very nice sparkling Chardonnay for about £7 which is Champers in disguise.

Rod

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I remember my mother who loved champagne and drank it weekly unknowingly being given Dom Perignon and drowning it with orange juice as she thought it so rough. Personally I wouldn't give a thank you for it - and before someone says ah, but you haven't tried ... - yes, I have. I've tried Dom Perignon, Krug, Cristal et al and I wouldn't bother with any of them. I just cannot see the fascination. A nice Mouton Rothschild, Chateau D'Yquem, a Penfold Grange ...

 

[Benchwayze]

Sorry. I haven't any champagne to hand.

I drink mine. :mrgreen:

 

[NazNomad]

Priodas Hapus ?

I'm not familiar with that vintage. Is it very dry ? :wink:

In Wales, that's about as dry as it gets.

 

[DiscoStu]

Veuve Clicquot is 37mm. :wink:

Mmmmm love the orange stuff!


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