pink champagne

American  

noun

1. a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.

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Etymology

Origin of pink champagne

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

In court testimony, one of them revealed Mrs. Netanyahu’s taste for pink champagne and other expensive luxuries.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Best believe the Forum will sell you a bottle of pink champagne on ice.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2021

And in the lines about being prisoners in a world of "pink champagne on ice", pleasure and regret mix in a way that's surely prescient.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2018

It seems deeply bizarre that in the midst of this, a scandal over cigars and pink champagne may be what’s occupying most of the prime minister’s, and the country’s, time.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2018

We all turned sixteen today, and for any normal girl that would mean raspberry and lemon macarons and tiny pastel blimps and pink champagne and card games.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton