Fine Champagne

[ French feen shahn-pan-yuh ]

noun

1. a high-quality cognac distilled from grapes grown in the Grande Champagne or Petite Champagne vineyards of western France.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fine Champagne¹

Borrowed into English from French around 1865–70

Example Sentences

There was fine champagne, a lavish buffet, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, and lots and lots of corporate executives.

From Washington Post

It became the thing to tipple during the Roaring ’20s, a time when bathtub gin met fine Champagne, and the two jitterbugged the night away without a care in the world.

From Seattle Times

"He served fine champagne, fine wine even though he was a teetotaller. He knew how to get the right people at the right parties."

From Fox News

It’s a collection of photographs depicting the gleeful destruction of valuable things—a hundred-dollar bill set on fire, fine champagne poured down a drain.

From The New Yorker

And if that makes you want to celebrate, we also have a delicious bubbly from Burgundy that’s a ringer for a fine champagne.

From Washington Post