So anyway, we gave him a great clap, we had a very pleasant dinner with some champagne to drink a toast.
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Pick up some champagne truffles at La Maison du Chocolat, or stop by Kee's Chocolate, where you can see the chocolate being made next door.
Judicious purchases of red Bordeaux, red and white Burgundy, a small parcel of port and some Champagne not from one of the major grand marques but an individual grower should provide happy drinking for the next decade or so.
The ONS said that the spirits drunk by younger people were reflected with the addition of white rum from off-licences, but some sales of champagne have been withdrawn because the amount of bubbly drunk continues to fall.
"We haven't seen champagne popped in some time, " says Lisa Kitagawa, the bar's co-owner.
Romance at the captain's table on some swank ocean liner, champagne socialites dancing in speakeasies -- the boys knew all that stuff from picture shows.
In the cramped flat, under framed photos of the grandparents decked in Soviet war medals, we threw back vodka and sweet champagne and jabbed at some unnaturally pink salami that looked suspiciously as if it had once oinked.
They often held some back, feeding speculation and preventing champagne houses such as Veuve Clicquot and Laurent-Perrier from making as much fizz as they wanted to.
And while they still expect expansion to continue, some are warning that Australia's "champagne economy" may lose a little bit of its fizz in coming quarters.
Recently they have selectively introduced in Germany some fancy foods like lox, lobsters, champagne and other gourmet items in order to attract a more diversified clientele.
In fact, the union of Prince William and Kate Middleton might boost some sectors of the economy as tour operators, champagne purveyors and pubs tap into the frenzy.
They meant we had to leave our desks at mid-afternoon, crowd into a windowless conference room and sing to some colleague while nibbling on cupcakes and sipping cheap champagne.
The travel agent may get the same rate as you, but in many cases, they get upgrades worth a couple of hundred dollars or more per night, from room class upgrades which are significant to extras like champagne on arrival, free breakfast daily, in some cases even free meals and free spa treatments.
There was supposedly a poll taken in Switzerland some years back that showed that when a man was seen drinking Champagne with a woman, two out of three Swiss jumped to the conclusion that she was not his wife.
Though no champagne or greeting cards are involved, we do admit to some corporate-congratulations of our own as we compare what we predicted against what actually came to pass.
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