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Can't...resist...urge...to...nitpick...!
Jul. 14th, 2012 02:18 amPartway through a quite lovely fic, the characters are served a dessert including chocolates filled with "fine champagne liqueur."
With...what now?
Can't figure out whether there actually is such a thing: I'm sure there are liqueurs made in the Champagne region, and I think there's more than one place also called Champagne in the Cognac area, but you wouldn't call those Champagne liqueurs, would you? It wouldn't tell you much of anything about the drink itself.
All I can imagine is some sort of syrupy, sweet version of Champagne, and as someone who loves both liqueurs and sparkling wines, I have to say: ew.
I feel relatively sure that this is just a non-drinker trying to come up with something that sounds luxe, but I'm still poking around Wiki and bartending websites at 2:30 am trying to figure it out, rather than sleeping or even just shrugging and moving on with the fic.
My brain's priorities, especially when I'm sleepy. Folks, IDEK.
With...what now?
Can't figure out whether there actually is such a thing: I'm sure there are liqueurs made in the Champagne region, and I think there's more than one place also called Champagne in the Cognac area, but you wouldn't call those Champagne liqueurs, would you? It wouldn't tell you much of anything about the drink itself.
All I can imagine is some sort of syrupy, sweet version of Champagne, and as someone who loves both liqueurs and sparkling wines, I have to say: ew.
I feel relatively sure that this is just a non-drinker trying to come up with something that sounds luxe, but I'm still poking around Wiki and bartending websites at 2:30 am trying to figure it out, rather than sleeping or even just shrugging and moving on with the fic.
My brain's priorities, especially when I'm sleepy. Folks, IDEK.
