Festivity Drink: H. Blin Brut Tradition.

Communist soldiers that guarded their side of the Berlin Wall couldn’t live without doing evil, which was the using mirrors to reflect sunlight into any appeared camera on the West side. The crew of Funeral in Berlin was forced to film from a long distance. No doubt I would use a pellet gun against mirror if I’d been there.

Around 5000 people wanted to cross the Berlin Wall. Woefully, at least 140 of them didn’t survive.

Reading stories of escapes to freedom is fascinating, and they’re always touchable.

When the rails were still there, engineer Harry Deterling stole a steam train with eight wagons and drove to the last station where made an offer to ride to freedom, which twenty-five people accepted. Accelerated the speed to 80 km per hour, the machine rammed through the wall. The rails were dismantled afterward.

A car mechanic, Wolfgang Engels, worked for the East German army. He stole from the military base a BTR-152 while its crew was at lunch. On a way of his driving, he invited random people to join, but no one agreed. He hit the wall, but that didn’t destroy it. Engels instantly went out from the vehicle and ran. Enemy soldiers opened fire. He stuck in razor-sharp barbed wire, while was shot twice. His activity caused the responded shooting from the other side. West Berlin soldiers helped him to get out, unconscious. The escapee underwent urgent surgery at the nearest hospital. When Engels came to conscience and saw the labels of West German liquor bottles, he realized that made it.

The wish to liberty never ages. Max Thomas was 81 years old in 1962 and lived close to the border. He with his wife, and ten other retired men and women dug a 32-meter-long underground tunnel. They turned off the light if a guard appeared. They were on the other side of the border sixteen days later.

Gunter Wetzel and Peter Strelzyk tried to cross the border of two Germanys via a homemade hot-air balloon. The first prototype didn’t work well for using. The second didn’t get them to cross. They walked five kilometers through a restricted zone and fourteen kilometers more to their car. The balloon was found by Stasi. Strelzyk destroyed evidences and sold the automobile. The friends decided to build another balloon fast because had a feel of danger of probability to be arrested soon.  They spent two months on that. On 16 September 1979, Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel escaped.

There couldn’t be other drink than champagne. H. Blin produces it since 1947. I took its bottle Brut Tradition. It contains: 70% Meunier, 20% Chardonnay, and 10% Pinot Noir. I wouldn’t choose that bottle with such inconsistency, but I hadn’t an alternative.

The drink has 12.5%, which strong than usual for champagne felt–and that’s nothing wrong. The cork jumped out after a slight twist. Its color is dark gold, which looks, as it was lighted. You get a topnotch champagne on the nose in which I’ve smelt brut and red wines. The taste has grapes and I’ve got a drop of acidity–which is lovable–and it usually in the end. There I also experienced the dominance of red wines. That fact doesn’t make the champagne a classic, while I’ve discovered one of the finest of these drinks. I had far notes of bitterness if I took in one gulp. The aftertaste is red wines and acidity. What is the best in life? Lying in bed and drinking a grandiose champagne.