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In Florida, Get Limo Rides, Botox, Booze at ... Dentist

Dustin Lushing — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:59:05 CDT

Who said going to the dentist had to be boring and/or terrifying? A dental office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has turned getting your teeth inspected into a luxurious event, complete with champagne, massages, and a personal concierge who will make you limo and dinner reservations, reports the Sun Sentinel . Dr....

Mystery Drinker's Bar Tab: $105K

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:00:53 CST

A jug of wine, a $105,000 bar tab, and thou. That could have been the bar manager's sweet ode to a mystery customer who paid the mammoth single-visit bar tab without blinking an eye. The tab—which included, among other goodies , a $35,000 six-liter bottle of Cristal Champagne,...

Beer Drinkers Don't Get Big Bellies, and Other Myths

Newser Editors — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:36:55 CST

You probably memorized many of these drinking tips before you could legally drink. Thing is, a number of them are false. In an article excerpted from New Scientist, the Washington Post busts a few myths ... and confirms a few others. Things that just aren't true: Coffee sobers you up: Caffeine...

Cork Popped on World's Oldest Champagne

Kevin Spak — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:25:05 CST

How does champagne taste after spending around 200 years at the bottom of the sea? “The flavors that came to my mind were yeast, honey and—dare I say—a hint of manure,” writes Louise Nordstrom of the AP , one of 20 people invited to taste two of the 168...

Champagne Spill Lands Peace Prize Supporter in Jail

Emily Rauhala — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:24:25 CDT

A woman was arrested in Hong Kong yesterday for accidentally splashing a guard while she commemorated Liu Xiaobo's Nobel Peace Prize win with some bubbly. Ip Ho-yee, 22, was celebrating outside China's main government office in Hong Kong when her celebratory champagne splashed an unsuspecting guard. "It was a minor...

How to Pour Champagne

John Johnson — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:37:25 CDT

For the best-tasting bubbly, pour your champagne into a tilted glass. So says a team of French scientists, who claim that the traditional straight pour allows too many gas bubbles to escape. It's those bubbles that give champagne its taste and aroma, explains the AP . Also, a cold bottle helps....

Divers Find Oldest Drinkable Champagne in Baltic Wreck

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:51:04 CDT

Now that's some vintage bubbly. Divers have discovered what is thought to be the world's oldest drinkable champagne in a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, one of the finders said Saturday. They sampled the one bottle—believed to be from the 1780s—they've brought up so far before they even...

Beer Cocktails? Cheers!

Will McCahill — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:35:00 CDT

The week of St. Patrick’s Day is always big on the drinking front, and perhaps you’re ready for something other than plain old beer. Esquire suggests some beer-based cocktails: Porteree: Take a quarter-pint of porter, add superfine sugar, then fill with ice before topping off with more porter. A little...

Champagne Arrives in Mail, 24 Years Late

Nick McMaster — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:43:36 CST

Frank Digoria thought his dad was "flipping out" when he received a bottle of champagne in the mail from him in January. Not only was his birthday a month past, but the card from Frank Sr. also mentioned a now-deceased wife. Turns out, Frank Sr. sent the bottle in 1985,...