Half of the excitement of having a bottle of champagne is the opening of it - the fight over who gets to do the honours, the decision of what technique to use - brute strength or a tea towel, the loud pop as the cork finally escapes - the duck if it goes flying - and finally catching any exploding fizz in a glass.
So how will people take to the new lever-operated top to be rolled out on trial this summer, which will make opening a bottle of champers, well, child’s play?
The new top is not dissimilar to the screw tops we have come so accustomed to on countless bottles of still wine on our supermarket shelves. So, in order to keep the lovely fizzy bubblyness that makes champagne so special, the bottles will come complete with an aluminium lever. This clever little device - aptly known as the “maestro” - did not just occur by accident - oh no it is the result of, oh around €1 million of research. The lever is designed so although it is very simple to unlock, it still gives out that lovely pop sound that we know and love of the older traditional corks.
However, it remains to be seen just how all us traditionalists out there will take to the new fangled ‘easy’ open bottle. Carol Duval-Leroy, who is head of the family producer trying the corks commented that champagne is and always will be “inventive as well as traditionalist”.
Daniel Lorson, of the French trade body the Comité Interprofessionnel des vins de Champagne, added that the tops of champagne had remained unaltered since the wire fastening was created in the 1860s, and that this new design would “without a doubt, transform the world of champagne”.
Well quaffers, we will just have to get sampling to see what the fuss is about.
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Half of the excitement of having a bottle of champagne is the opening of it - the fight over who gets to do the honours, the decision of what technique to use - brute strength or a tea towel, the loud pop as the cork finally escapes - the duck if it goes flying - and finally catching any exploding fizz in a glass.
So how will people take to the new lever-operated top to be rolled out on trial this summer, which will make opening a bottle of champers, well, child’s play?
The new top is not dissimilar to the screw tops we have come so accustomed to on countless bottles of still wine on our supermarket shelves. So, in order to keep the lovely fizzy bubblyness that makes champagne so special, the bottles will come complete with an aluminium lever. This clever little device - aptly known as the “maestro” - did not just occur by accident - oh no it is the result of, oh around €1 million of research. The lever is designed so although it is very simple to unlock, it still gives out that lovely pop sound that we know and love of the older traditional corks.
However, it remains to be seen just how all us traditionalists out there will take to the new fangled ‘easy’ open bottle. Carol Duval-Leroy, who is head of the family producer trying the corks commented that champagne is and always will be “inventive as well as traditionalist”.
Share and Enjoy:Daniel Lorson, of the French trade body the Comité Interprofessionnel des vins de Champagne, added that the tops of champagne had remained unaltered since the wire fastening was created in the 1860s, and that this new design would “without a doubt, transform the world of champagne”.
Well quaffers, we will just have to get sampling to see what the fuss is about.