A sea of champagne for a cheese celebration

Giddy for the tonight'isms.



A cheese and champagne experience to celebrate the new year and the one year anniversary of San Diego's Premier Cheese Club,

Tonight we will be showcasing a fine range of sparklers from a Rosé

to a fine Blanc de Blanc

and everything in between. 

Oh, the bubblyjoys of life and tapping into a magic moon.

Cheers to you and the good life,
whatever than means to you my friends and accomplices.

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Cirque Musica, Champagne & Summer Pops: When the San Diego Symphony Meets the Circus

San Diego Symphony featuring Cirque Musica

I love my fancy, little wondery world of my own.

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Happy Friday! Time to slip into dancing shoes and drink champagne

Well wishes and a beautiful weekend to you

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Sheepy, goaty and the moo-moos

Sheepy cheese

Higher fat content, higher in calcium and zinc

complex, sweet and creamy in flavor

French: brebis

Italian: pecora

Spanish: oveja

ewephoric when melty on crusty bread accompanied by earthy figs and fresh roasted nuts

pair with rosé, champagne, pinot noir, or Zinfandel

Goaty cheese

tarty, tangy, least caloric, tolerable for lactose intolerant, least likely to trigger allergies,
high in vitamin a and potassium

French: chèvre

Italian: capra

Spanish: cabra

 Sprinkle some diced peaches mixed with honey and drizzle bits of goat cheese onto toasted multigrain bread for a summer bruschetta.

I promise you'll be left yodeling with more gusto than the lonely goatherd.

pair with riesling, pinot grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, grenache rose, chardonnay

Cow cheese

French: vache

Italian: vacca

Spanish: vaca

largely abundant, varied fat content, more difficult to digest

Cowgirl Creamery's signature triple cream Mt Tam.
 Udderly delightful for a cool summer sunset gathering of sorts.

pair with a meaty cabernet or sherry

Buffalo cheese

French: buffalo
Italian: bufalo
Spanish: búfalo

highest in fat content, extemely tangy, less abundant.

tomato heirloom and buffalo mozzerella caprese salad

pair with chianti, chenin blanc, Viognier

When in cheese and spirit pairing doubt, pair the region or go for the fruity wines.

Moose cheese

There are three lactating moose in Sweden for cheese production, and at $3000/kilo what a steal!

Fuzzy farewells to you for now.

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Champagne and cheese bits...

The best (and safest) way to open a bottle of bubbly? Remove wire cage. Cover cork with a cloth and slowly turn bottle until it pops.

The most fun way?
Sabering 

Place the neck of a chilled bottle of champagne upside down into an ice bucket for a minimum of thirty minutes. Locate where the seam from the body of the bottle meets the cork.

Hold bottle at an approximate 20 degree angle, 

pointing away from you and any loved ones. Aim the back of your saber blade (heavy kitchen knife or sword) towards the cork.

Keeping knife flat, slide along this seam (the bottle's weakest point) with a smooth follow through. Do not hesitate. It doesn't take much force, but it takes absolute confidence.

The blade will strike the lip of the nearly frozen bottle and force the glass to separate the collar from the bottleneck. Cork will remain in its collar, as you essentially slice the top off and behead your bottle. Take delight in knowing your guests will not soon forget that you hosted the best dinner party they've ever attended.

Cheese tip: 

Canadian snowgoat cheese is a friend of champagne.
Pair with fresh strawberries, dried figs and fruit.

Meaningless fact #1 

Only sparkling wines produced in Champagne, France
may be rightly called champagne.

Meaningless fact #2 

There are 49,000,000,000 bubbles in the average
bottle of champagne. 

Bigger bubbles = bigger hangover.

Meaningless fact #3 

A typical champagne bottle provides six glasses.
A Nebuchandenezzar bottle will provide
twenty bottles of champagne. 

Pour with great care.

And to think you weren't going to learn 

a damn thing today.

Enjoy thirsty cavaliers

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