Everybody loves champagne, so it's no surprise that tickets to a dinner featuring the exclusive all-vintage blanc de blancs champagne label Salon and the much loved small champagne producer Delamotte sold out quickly.
On Tuesday night at the T'ang Court restaurant, in Tsim Sha Tsui's Langham Hotel, lovers of the good life sipped Delamotte Brut N.V. while brand president Didier Depond introduced the evening's wines.
Things got off to a great start and kept getting better. While guests enjoyed a predominantly seafood menu, they sipped sensational champagne including a rich and complex Delamotte 1999, of which only 100 bottles were allotted to Hong Kong, and a rare Salon 1999.
Depond himself was in understandably good spirits. He is the 13th generation to run his family's champagne business and proudly boasted that he had been drinking champagne longer than he could remember.
He said it should not just be reserved for special occasions: "We should all start drinking champagne for breakfast!"
His enthusiasm no doubt comes from his father, who would famously drink a magnum of champagne a day. Depond recalled his late father's words of wisdom: "A magnum is the perfect amount of wine for two people, if one of them isn't drinking."