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In article <hketola.726126290@uclagsm>, hketola@agsm.ucla.edu (Heikki Ketola) writes:
|> If you cannot finish a bottle of champagne you might want to recap the
|> bottle.  Presumably we all have tried that once,  and I guess we left
|> it at that  -it is hard to recap a champagne bottle.  So what can you
|> do?  You certainly don't want to waste the bottle by leaving it open
|> -it would taste like a can of flat Coke the next day.

Actually, (proper) champagne tends to go flat rather slowly.  I've
heard that there is some sort of compound formed between the alcohol
and the carbon dioxide (hydrogen bonding would seem to me to be the
only obvious candidate).  You may believe that or not as you choose.

As for tasting like flat Coke: surely it would have to taste like
carbonated Coke beforehand?  Since I uniformly avoid carbonated (as
opposed to fermented-fizzy) drinks, I'm not really qualified to judge,
but would people _buy_ champagne if it could be substituted by some
cheap sticky brown gloop?

|> I have observed people from both the US and Germany solving this
|> problem this way:  they stick a spoon (handle down) in the champagne
|> bottle and claim without a blink of the eye that the spoon prevents
|> the  champagne from going flat.  Mind you,  with any stretch of
|> imagination you cannot call the spoon a tight fit.
|> 
|> Do you folks believe in this?  I can't believe that it works,  but
|> then being a cheapskate I am I haven't done any empirical experiments
|> either. It just cannot work  -or can it?

This topic has been discussed here in the past.  I don't believe the
supposed effect, but people _do_ swear by it.  If champagne doesn't go
flat anyway, sticking a spoon in the neck of the bottle will surely
(as it were) _work_.
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