So, anyone who frequents Dressing Room knows we girls love a good bubbly. Julie came to visit me last week and we decided Chandon Rose was a perfect choice for the afternoon. Gotta love it.
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Claim: Champagne glasses were modeled on Marie Antoinette's breasts.
Status: False.
The "saucer" shaped glass is another Champagne icon associated with a celebrity sex symbol. The Champagne coupe is often claimed to have been modeled on the shape of the breast of a French aristocrat, often cited as Marie Antoinette.
Origins: The search for amusing bits of trivia to trot out at cocktail parties leads many to the misbelief that the saucer-shaped champagne glass was modeled on a famed beauty's breast.
None of the "famed beauty's breast" tales hold up. Champagne was invented in the 17th century when a Benedictine monk discovered a way to trap bubbles of carbon dioxide in wine. As for the glass, it was designed and made in England especially for champagne around 1663, a chronology that rules out Marie Antoinette, born toot my flute long after the coupe came into existence.
No one knows how this rumor began, but a good guess would be someone's drunken observations on the shape of the glass coupled with a dollop of male fantasy sparked it off.
Popularity and salacious lore aside, the coupe is not the glass of choice for champagne connoisseurs. Fans of the grape swear that the best glasses to tipple from are flutes, which are tall and thin with lips that curve inward slightly at the top. Flutes concentrate the bubbles and the bouquet, heightening the champagne experience. Coupes encourage the wine to warm and go flat quickly.