COCO CHANEL SAID IT BEST:
“I only drink champagne on two occasions: when I’m in love and when I’m not!”
JAMES BOND USED IT to judge a man’s character: “Any man who drinks Dom Pérignon ’52 can’t be all bad.” Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, Kanye, and Queen were all savvy enough to sing about what 17th-century monk Dom Pérignon proclaimed as “tasting the stars.” Chilled to perfection, small bubbles, crisp, pink or white—it is the elixir of the gods and dream makers from Grace Kelly and Cary Grant to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Beyoncé to Leo. It ushers in the New Year or a new baby, celebrates the Super Bowl champs or the first college graduate in the family. And perfection is only achieved when paired with the PB&J of the elite: beluga, sevruga, osetra caviar—take your pick, but never ever pick it up with anything but a mother of pearl spoon, perhaps smooth bone. Touch it with metal and poof! you have destroyed the precious gem of the Caspian Sea, trashed the integrity of this crunchy, salty delicacy. Fantasy destroyed, worse than Cinderella at 12:01!