Champagne coupe

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The champagne coupe is a stemware saucer-shaped glass used for champagne and some cocktails. It has a long stem with a wide and shallow bowl on top. This shape gives the champagne saucer a large surface area per volume, which results in the champagne losing its carbonation quickly. This effect in contrast to that of the champagne flute, the shape of which preserves carbonation. The glass is designed to be held by the stem to help prevent the heat from the hand from warming the champagne.

Legend has it that the shape of the glass was modeled on the breast of Marie Antoinette, or Joséphine de Beauharnais, or Madame de Pompadour or one of several other French aristocrats, although this is almost certainly apocryphal.