Booney wrote:Psyber wrote:RustyCage wrote:The idiots who are complaining about the girl on the podium at the Chinese Grand Prix getting sprayed with champagne by Lewis Hamilton
Personally, I think Champagne should be slightly chilled and sipped from a suitable glass, and that anyone who shakes the bottle and sprays it is crass, and should be shot after they've paid everyone's dry cleaning bills - and for the wasted Champagne...

I Sir take a slightly different view. I consider shaking and spraying champagne around to be a much more tantalizing proposition than drinking it! Yes, I have tried what was described as "Excellent French champagne", upwards of $200 a bottle. If you have told me it was from a French poodle I would not have been surprised one bit.
I tend to drink Dominique Portet which is a Victorian made product at about $29.90 a bottle.
I like almost as much Taltarni Brut Rose once made by the same winemaker - about $24.90.
Of the French ones I favour Billecart-Salmon at about $84.
Moet Chandon and Dom Perignon are nice, but not good value for money.
The very advertised Veuve Clicquot probably does come from a poodle...