04 November, 2001

Cristal for Posh and Becks

The top champagne Cristal has newly named customers in the people-class. Time will reveal if soccer- and poppounds will turn out more acceptable than American hiphop dollars for Louis Roederer.

It is the favourite gossip couple of the Brits - David and Victoria Beckham - who recently asked to have Cristal rather than the Dom Ruinart that was already put on ice in the hotel suite of the couple. The latest on Posh and Becks fed small talk columns all around the world... here as well... after all it is champagnegossip.

Now, it is not that Dom Ruinart is not a great champagne. The house of Ruinart likes to emphasize that it is the most ancient of its kind in the region, and the Dom happens to be their topcuvée, that is the counterpart of the Cristal of Louis Roederer. But different people, different tastes... this cannot be discussed. Should you do so anyway, you are at risk of ending up on the ultimate hate list of an entire industry before I can pronounce the name Jay-Z.

This is what the manager of Louis Roederer, Frédéric Rouzaud, has probably learned after he maybe-maybe not renounced the publicity, that Cristal - originally the exclusive brand of the Russian czars - got for free because of the taste of rapper Jay-Z. I am quite convinced, that the Roederer-manager no matter his personal attitude towards the pop- and soccer-couple will stay quiet this time. Should he be asked.

På dansk

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