Weddings and Wineb
You are planning for your big day, and you have spent countless hours planning the food menu, however most of the time a lot of thought is not given to the wine served.
Champagne is often thought about but more from the perspective of “you need something to toast with” but:
- what about the flavour and the pairings.
- Which Champagne should your serve at your wedding?
- What wines should you share with your guests on your special day?
Food and Wine are a classic pair and weddings are all about food wine and sharing ..
To begin with consider what, styles and varieties of foods you will be serving at the reception not just is it beef or chicken, then pair specific wines with the selected foods to highlight the flavors (see our food pairing article). You don’t have to serve just one type of wine in addition to the classic champagne you could consider a combination of whites and reds (dinner and desert wines).
Currently the most popular white wine in the world is Chardonnay so theoretically you can’t go wrong with this choice, but there are other options like Riesling or perhaps Pinot Grigio Trentino from Italy all of these would excellent candidates for the white wine category. For red wines consider, I would personally start with a Shiraz or Merlot but Cabernet Sauvignon is a great option for casual red wine drinkers. One thing you should be in tune to is your guests and what they will appreciate and that could lead you to consider serving Red and White Zinfandel and baby duck :-) which are great options for those who are not into wines and when they do drink wines prefer sweeter lighter options ..
Finally the first thing everyone thinks about the “clinking of glasses” The Toast
Champagne or sparkling wine?
Champagne is not much different from sparkling wine all champagnes are sparkling wines. However, not all sparkling wines are champagnes hmmh….
Champagne and sparkling wine are called carbonated wines because they contain a large amount of dissolved carbon dioxide just like your favorite pop or soda. The carbonation occurs during the second fermentation stage (they are double fermented) of the grapes, which is once more regular wines.
Therefore, Champagne is a sparkling wine but for legal reasons you cannot call any sparkling wine champagne because the name Champagne is legally protected in many countries, sparkling wines can be labeled as Champagne only if it is produced under a specific process in a certain the Champagne region of France.
Champagne is by far the best known and most expensive of the sparkling wines but there are many other sparkling varieties of wines produced in other countries and regions, that are excellent. For example, there's Sekt of Germany, Cava of Spain, Spumante of Italy and last but not least a bunch from the Niagara region in Canada.
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