If you are planning to give someone this Christmas or New Year a Dom Perignon Champagne Gift Set it may also be a good idea to present them with some other items. Why not include a champagne cork catcher as well. This small device will not only protect your home but others around you as the bottle is opened. So of course they will still enjoy the sound as the bottle is opened of it "popping".

Another thing you may also want to include is a small instruction manual that you have made yourself explaining how to store and also how to prepare and serve the champagne. Below we take you through some of the steps that you can include in your little manual that they may find useful.

Instructions on How to Store Champagne

The actual temperature at which you store this drink isn't important. What you do need to do is store it somewhere that the temperature isn't likely to change too often. So storing it close to an oven or a radiator should not be considered.

Another important thing to remember when it comes to storing champagne is that it never should be stored where light is going to shine on it often. Certainly storing it under spotlights in your kitchen or direct sunlight will have a serious affect on how the champagne looks and tastes when you finally decide to drink it.

Although previously you were required to store the bottle of champagne horizontally to ensure that the cork didn't become dried out. However today this is not the situation as improvements have been made in the corks used so it is okay to store it both horizontally or vertically.

Chilling & Serving Dom Perignon Champagne

When it comes to serving the wine that is the Dom Perignon Champagne Gift Set of course make sure it has been properly chilled. Ideally you should have it in the fridge for no more than 8 hours before it should be drunk. Although you can if you want allow it to chill for 3 hours and this should prove sufficient.

If however you need to chill your champagne much more quickly then what you shouldn't do is place it in a freezer. Instead you should place the bottle of Dom Perignon champagne in to an ice bucket that you then fill with equal amounts of cold water and crushed ice. Now leave the bottle in this for around 25 to 45 minutes and this will ensure that it has reached the ideal temperature at which it can be served.

When serving the bottle of Dom Perignon make sure that you use a champagne flute that isn't cold. If the glass is cold then as the champagne is poured into it, the glass will begin to frost and so the color of it won't be shown off to its full beauty. Plus another thing to do when serving wine in a Dom Perignon Champagne Gift Set is to only fill the glass around 2/3 full.