Champagne

Over 100 Uncorked Champagne Bottles Found in 170-Year-Old Shipwreck

The bottles were unopened, in a chance find that's been sitting on the bottom of the sea for 170 years.

How champagne is made

Champagne is really hard to make. There are rules and regulations and specific grapes and soil requirements and is completely region specific and more that goes into each bottle that it’s impressive that even one bottle gets popped. In this video from the Science Channel, we get to see how Bollinger makes its champagne. It…

Three Cheers for the Chambong, the World’s Most Unnecessary Tool for Alcohol Consumption

“Did someone send you a fancy crack pipe?” It was Friday, it was not a reasonable drinking hour, and I was opening a package in the office containing an oblong object that looked like a dandy narcotic catheter. It’s Friday afternoon, you’ve made it through the long week, and it’s time for Happy Hour, Gizmodo’s…

This Is What 170-Year-Old Champagne From a Shipwreck Tasted Like 

In 2010, divers rescued some amazingly old alcohol from a shipwreck off the coast of Finland. They’ve already published some detailed tasting notes about the beer—but now they’ve carried out an in-depth analysis of the champagne they found, too. The bottles of champagne found aboard the ship were actually eminently traceable. Markings on the corks…

The Science of How Champagne Gets Its Bubbles

Without its bubbles, champagne is ordinary white wine, unfit for sabering or smashing against new ships. So what gives sparkling wines their sparkle? A fascinating process called secondary fermentation. Unlike most wines, champagne goes through an additional fermentation in the bottle. Sugar and additional yeast are added when the champagne is bottled, and the yeast…

Just Drink Prosecco

It’s New Year’s Eve, which means that amateurs across the planet will be imbibing far more booze than they’re accustomed to, and more likely than not, the intoxicating mixture will include a bunch of bubbly. Here’s why it should be a cheap bottle of prosecco and nothing else. Seeing the light at the end of…

What the Hell Is Champagne Sabering?

The first time you see someone sabre a bottle of Champagne a series of thoughts run through your mind: Why is that person waving a knife… or perhaps a sword? What’s that in their other hand? A bottle of Champagne! Where is this going… Oh god. I’m about to get sprayed by Champagne at best,…

Guy perfectly uncorks a champagne bottle with a tactical rifle

The guys at FullMag—previously RatedRR—managed to perfectly open a bottle of cheap champagne using a 50 Cal tactical rifle. Sadly, in the process they also managed to shatter a bottle of perfectly delicious 2006 Cristal Champagne—which makes me sad. But whatever, happy holidays! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

This champagne glass is shaped after Kate Moss’ left breast (NSFW)

A (false) legend says that the first champagne glass was molded using the left breast of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France till her head rolled. It was actually created in England, like this new champagne glass modeled after the left breast of Kate Moss, the modern Queen of Fashion. Let’s compare with the real thing…

How to open a bottle of champagne with a sword and science

People don’t keep a saber in the kitchen drawer, but opening a champagne bottle with a sword is so cool that it should be mandatory—at least—in every single restaurant. Here’s food star Alton Brown showing you how you do it and why this method works so well. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

Want the Most Booze per Calorie? Skip Liquor and Go For Champagne

In surprising booze news, Wonkblog’s Christopher Ingraham gives an unexpected (and classy) spin to conventional drinking wisdom: if you’re looking to get the most alcoholic punch per calorie, don’t reach for “the hard stuff.” You’re better off drinking champagne or sparkling wine. The whole evaluation is great—you really should read Ingraham’s entire data-driven look at…

Veuve Clicquot’s New Packaging Transforms Into Its Own Bottle Chiller

Champagne is for celebrating. But what sort of shoddy celebration would it be if it were warm? Veuve’s thinking ahead this holiday season with a new “Fashionably Clicquot” package that quickly transforms into a handy—and handsome!—ice bucket. The top half of the signature black and yellow box just slides off to give the origami-like bottom…

The deadly side of champagne bubbles

Though the “sparkling” part of champagne is a key part of it’s appeal, those tiny bubbles were a huge problem for about a century’s worth of French wine makers. We’ll let you in on the making, and the downside, of bubbles. There’s a famous legend that has the inventor of champagne, Dom Perignon, tasting his…

That gold iPhone 5S sure is popular (or Apple didn’t make very many of them) — if you try to order through Apple’s website, it won’t ship until October. What a champagne pain.

Apple has apparently asked its suppliers to ramp up production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by one-third after seeing strong demand for the new phone.

18-Wheeler Crashes, Spills Hundreds of Bottles of Champagne on Highway

Take a look around you—because you will never forget where you were the day you heard about the Champagne Massacre of ’13. Yesterday, Wednesday September 18 at around 2:30 pm, a truck filled to the brim with bubbly fell over, split open, and got I-395 in Connecticut absolutely wasted. The incident happened after the truck…

What Happens When You Stuff iPhone 5 Guts in an iPhone 5S Body?

If you haven’t seen a million iPhone 5S housing pics of varying believability by now, you’re either doing something very wrong, or very right. But looking at an alleged 5S case by itself doesn’t tell us much about the improvements over the regular 5, so Jonathan at TLD endeavored to see how many of the…

Is This the Gold iPhone 5S?

With all this talk of a golden iPhone you may have been expecting something terribly bling. But this leaked image, published by Japanese website Weekly Ascii, claims to show off the new “champagne” iPhone and it… it doesn’t look that bad. As ever, the usual rumour disclaimer applies: take with a massive pinch of salt…

Which Type of Alcohol Gets Destroyed Best By Guns?

It’s never a good idea to mix guns and alcohol unless you’re using guns to shoot at alcohol. And we’re not talking about just popping pellets at empty beer cans, we’re talking about our friends at RatedRR firing AK-47s and AR-15s at full bottles of wine and champagne to create a bubbly (sorry) explosion. Watch…

Laser-Etched Champagne Flutes Bubble Forever, Or At Least Until Empty

Your 2013 New Year’s Eve celebrations are probably over, but if you want to add some pizzazz to your next party 364 days from now, grab a set of these special champagne flutes that feature a laser-etched sparkling point on the bottom producing a non-stop stream of bubbles. The glasses rely on the same science…