Once at a corporate party, amusing myself with the empty treep that the Aborigines call “socialising,” I poured out to my colleagues that drinking champagne from high glasses is breaking a century-old tradition. It is said that in the seventeenth century, the king of French winemakers (and also of all other classes) Louis XIV ordered to remove the blind from the small but beautiful chest of his favourite Gabriela d’Estre, and even the Marquis Pompadour, and make him the same shape glasses for champagne. It is said that this is the only container worthy of such a noble drink. As a result, the glasses came out cup-shaped, wide, and at the same time quite small.

There was a second break, interrupted by Peter, an elderly employee who had already managed to "fresh up" but did not lose the vividity of his imagination. Looking at his high and narrow glass, the bubbles in which long streams rushed up, he thoughtfully noted: "I sincerely hope that behind our Australian tradition of drinking from the lengthy glasses still does not hide a similar story. Anyway, I’t want to know her! »