He's got a point you know!

The babycham-type glasses are not so likely to get knocked over though, and they do spray champagne up your nose quite effectively.

phoenix It's not a problem if your butler is sufficiently alert to keep topping up the flute.

Flutes are a bugger flipping nuisance to wash up.Ours can't go in the dishwasher but topple over in the draining basket! On the other hand, the saucers take more storage space! Isn't life difficult?

One could use a straw in a flute, I suppose.

I once heard if you drank champagne from a flute with a straw it made you drunk quicker I don't know if that's true or an old wives tale, perhaps I should try it out and report back!

I use a wine glass for any wine... li'l ol' wine-drinker me! Oh, unless I want to be reminded of cheap red plonk drunk in a French village café, when I'll use a shot glass...

I think the flat saucer-like champagne glass was a Victorian abomination, wasn't it? Like fish knives and forks...

It would seem that those with larger noses find flutes difficult to drink from! Or so I am told, by some male acquaintances.

I have seen some beautiful Edwardian champagne coups with hollow stems, apparently this helps to maintain the bubbles. Cheers. x

We have flutes which I wash with an old babies bottle brush kitty.
Not that I give a damn but I think I read somewhere that it was very old hat to serve champagne in a coup thanks for that word J52

I think you should drink champagne from a white wine glass or a burgundy glass for the best fizz and flavours. Other than that a champagne tulip is better than a flute or bowl.

Not that I drink champagne. It's just the range of glasses for all sorts of drinks that fascinate me.

I imagine that the wider saucer glasses would lose the bubbles far quicker. but the flutes are awkward to use.

We use flutes but rather large ones!!! I bought then in Homebase. I do think the saucer type look very stylish though. I don't mind how Champagne is served as long as it is!
PS I don't put any glasses in the dishwasher its seems to make them cloudy over time.

If I had something to celebrate I wouldn't mind which shape glass was used. All together now, Ah poor soul.

Love champagne. Hate those flutes. Have a big nose. Have thought about secreting one of those little straws that come stuck to apply juice boxes up my sleeve and using that.

Annsixty Champagne, even the pretend stuff, is the greatest pick-me-up. Can be drunk any time. And the best thing is that the whole bottle has to be drunk. Doesn't keep!

is it true champagne has been supped from a shoe

I'll drink champagne out of anything. I have a boucheron ? Spelling to keep it if I don't drink the whole bottle, ( not often used)
I have saucer glasses,flutes and bloody big half pint flutes ( wedding present)
Always wished I could prescribe champagne instead of antidepressants, it works quicker and tastes much nicer.

One of those silly things the upper, upper class used to do I believe. Champagne in a lady's shoe drunk by a bloke. Never fancied the idea. The champagne would taste foul and the shoe would end up all sticky.

Did you know that a teaspoon in the top of the bottle keeps champagne/prosecco/cava bubbly? If you ever need to keep it, of course!

I inherited some old fashioned champagne glasses from an aunt - only ever used them for a desert cant remember what it was though

Teaspoon doesn't really work. A boucheron does!

a friend knowing I like a glass or 3 of wine has bought me an ingenious present for my birthday it consists of 75cl bottle but the neck opens into a wine glass the caption reads "finally a wine glass that fits my needs"...I can now truthfully answer when asked...but I have had only one while cooking.... maybe somewhere one exists with a flute for champagne.[.sunshine]

On a day to day basis we drink our champagne from white wine glasses, the flutes only come out for celebrations so they look the part in photos.

Champagne from good crystal flutes! Mmm! Delightful! If you can't get at the last bit, lie on the floor and get someone to pour it down your throat. If you drink enough of it, you end up there anyway! (speak for yourself Greyduster!)

I don't like champagne I'm afraid! Even the most expensive straight to my head and gives me a headache........

BTW, what's a boucheron?

day to day basis * harrigran*

A teaspoon makes it last long enough for my needs Galen.