Let's all boycott Cristal

One time when I was at band camp….er……my friend’s house for a party, a guest pulled out a bottle of champagne for all of us to try. As soon as I saw that yellow plastic wrapper I immediately knew what it was. In fact, that yellow plastic is so identifiable that my husband and I used to make a game of spotting it. We would watch MTV’s Cribs and see who could be the first to point it out. My favorite sighting was a famous rapper who had three 3 liters on display in front of a huge bay window with sunlight shining directly on them in Louisiana. But hey, who doesn’t love cooked champagne. Anywho….I digress.

The champagne I am talking about is Cristal by Roederer. Since I had never had it before, I just had to have a glass. I was shocked by it. I mean I went into it thinking that it wouldn’t be able to live up to the hype, yet I was perfectly prepared to love it and sing it’s praises. After all, could P Diddy really love something that was just kinda…..meh? I HATED it. I absolutely thought it was no good. Think of Britney Spears interview with Matt Lauer last week. I mean we knew it would be bad by the clips they aired but when we watched it…..OMG train wreck!! That’s how I felt about Cristal.

So, since Cristal is so expensive and rather hard to come by, I made it my personal mission a long time ago to try and educate people on better champagne (Krug). It has been a long and hard battle but now it seems as though I have a brand new ally – Jay-Z. That’s right….I said Jay-Z. It seems that the big wig at Roederer wasn’t a big fan of Cristal being associated with the “bling” lifestyle and made several comments to this affect. Now, in my opinion, this was retarded. I mean “people thinking Clay Aiken is straight” retarded. I’m posting the link so you guys can read it for yourselves.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/15/jayz.cristal.ap/index.html
Thanks for the heads up on this one Andi!!!!!

Now, I don’t want you to run out and buy Cristal just so you can agree with me on what a disappointment it was. You can be perfectly disappointed with Roederer’s Brut Premiere for $55 ish bucks and get the same effect. :)
And, here’s one more reason not to buy Cristal (I think I just vomited a little) I love it when people drink $300 Champagne straight from the bottle. K-Fed you're C-L-ASSY!!!


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