TAKE care if you’re planning to toast the New Year with champagne. The
bubbles in this most celebratory of tipples really do get you drunk more
quickly.
Many people say that champagne bubbles “go straight to their head”, making
them giggly and light-headed. Researchers have now confirmed these inebriating
effects in the lab for the first time.
Fran Ridout and a team in the human psychopharmacology unit at the University
of Surrey in Guildford threw a couple of “drinks parties” for volunteers in
their department. Unbeknown to the volunteers, Ridout used the occasions to test
the influence of the bubbles…
