Champagne, the French elixir…
French nutritionist Yves Calmette loves Champagne and explains that a little bit of what you fancy doesn’t do any harm from time to time…
Champagne! These nine letters immediately give me goose bumps… Just like Napoleon, I can't imagine my life without Champagne. As he used to say "I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate. I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself."
Napoleon and I aren’t the only ones. It all started with French monk Dom Perignon who discovered Champagne in the 17th century and who, it is claimed, famously declared “Come quickly, I am tasting the stars’’. Madame de Pompadour asserted “Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it”.
Winston Churchill paid the compliment “Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it”. Charles Dickens maintained “Champagne is one of the elegant extras in life”.