Better with Bubbles: An Effervescent Education in Champagnes and Sparkling Wines

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Champagne. For some, the word conjures up the holiday season and a small sprinkling of other festive events. For others, it s dollar signs and anxiety the pressure to spend a lot without knowing what you re in for. For too few according to Ariel Arce, owner of Air s Champagne Parlor does Champagne say fun. Drawing on her decade of experience selling, drinking, and exploring the world of sparkling wine, Better with Bubbles educates, amuses, inspires, and empowers readers to make Champagne and sparkling wine their go-to, everyday treat. Divided into two sections (one for Champagne the sparkling wine that comes from the region of Champagne and the other from sparkling wines from around the world), Better with Bubbles dispenses with dry backstory and tedious tasting notes in favor of a rollicking, visual tour of the complete universe of bubbly. There will be sections that help you discover your palate through emoji; a guide to what to wear (and not wear) to a vineyard; and an instructive, visually rich guide to creating sparkling soirees like a Champagne ping-pong pizza party; a lazy Sunday with bubbly and buddies, and a glam disco dance. The sparkling section will cover the dominant sparkling regions around the world (Italy, Spain, and elsewhere in France), along with exciting newer players like Greece, England, the U.S., America, Australia, and Japan.

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Better with Bubbles is meant to keep you up at nightwriting a grocery list for your next bubbles-inspired soire, updatingyour Spotify with Arces sparkling soundtracks, booking your planeticket to the motherland to follow her road map of the best sips andeats, and compiling a wish list of bottles from her recommendations. Whats most refreshing is how Arce approaches a product that isviewed as a luxury. Her personality is what ultimately sets this bookapart: outgoing, humble and witty.
WINE & SPIRITS MAGAZINE

"For many of us, the holiday season is, among other things, an excuse to up our intake of champagne. Content to just grab the nearest bottle of Met, most people don't bother to do much research on the subject prior to quaffing it, however. Ariel Arce is here to change that.Arce, who was once dubbed the "Champagne Empress of Greenwich Village" by theNew York Times,is a restauranteur and owner of Air's Champagne Parlor, Tokyo Record Bar, Niche Niche, and Special Club in New York, among others. And now she's an author as well, with a cool new book out from Universe calledBetter with Bubbles: An Effervescent Education in Champagnes & Sparkling Wines."
AIROWS.COM

"To say that restaurateur Ariel Arce knows champagne would be an understatement. As the owner of New York Citys Tokyo Record Bar, Airs Champagne Parlor, Niche Niche, and Special Club, she believes that sparkling wine shouldnt be reserved just for lifes most important moments but should instead be enjoyed on a regular basis. Champagne, in Arces expert opinion, can transform the most mundane of activities into one of pure magic, and her new book Better with Bubbles shows exactly how. Drawing on a decade of experience tasting, selling, and learning about champagne, the book educates readers on the beverages illustrious history and how it differs across various regions, entertains and inspires with a choose-your-own-adventure tasting guide, and empowers us to make sparkling wine a bigger part of our lives." FORBES.COM

"A magical deep dive into Champagne and sparkling wines from Ariel Arce, owner of NYC's Air's Champagne Parlor, this book is a visual tour of all the bubbly to know and choose-your-own-adventure tasting guide. Cheers!" MARTHA STEWART LIVING

"...this must-have addition to your wine book library is a fun read. You wont even realize how much youre learning, since youll be laughing so much. The book is chock full of interesting facts and stories about Champagne and its bubbly cousins from around the world." THE WINE CHEF

Author Bio

Dubbed the Champion of Champagne (and one of their 40 Tastemakers Under 40) by Wine Enthusiast, Ariel Arce is a restauranteur and owner of Air's Champagne Parlor, Tokyo Record Bar, Niche Niche, and Special Club in New York. She previously worked as the wine director of Birds and Bubbles, as well as at the cult Chicago cocktail venue, The Office at the Aviary.