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Ultimate Valentine’s & Galentine’s Party Ideas

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Toast to the gals with woman-owned wines!

Ultimate Galentine’s Party: Owned & managed entirely by women, we at Le Grand Courtâge raise a glass to the leading ladies in our lives, the friendships we hold dear! Translating to The Great Courtship, we celebrate the courtshipbetween French and American wine culture, grapes from different regions, old and new world wine styles, and of course relationships between people that truly make our lives meaningful.

We’ve curated some chic, elevated ideas to celebrate Galentine’s Day with your gal pals.

♥ Make an adorable galentine-inpsired snack board.
♥  Just for fun: a wine and cheese tasting party.
♥  Create easy, fruity ice for an elevated cocktail garnish.
♥  Work together to mix up a besties cocktail recipe.
♥  Keep it light and fresh with a heart shaped caprese salad.
♥  Have 187ml bottles of bubbly for table settings or individual champagne toasts.
♥  Host a card making and cocktails night in with friends.For more ideas, follow along on  Pinterest!
♥  Paint & Sip – How about some ‘bubbles & brushes’ to let your creative juices flow?
♥  Rom-Com Movie Night – Gather your girls together for a night of binge-watching your favorite romantic movies. There are plenty of options to keep your ultimate Galentine’s Party night going (including the heartfelt yet ill-fated love story of Jack and Rose from The Titanic.

Menu

Hosting an elevated brunch? Or maybe a ladies night in? Keep it simple! Prepare a few items ahead of time and have each guest bring something they love – you’ll save time and there will be more time for fun!

Garnishes

Get creative! We love simple cotton candy on top of a glass of bubbles. A simple lemon twist is always chic, and you can really add a touch of elegance with lovely florals.

Playlist

Music really sets the mood at any party. We’ve curated some of our favorites for our favorite stations we love for any occasion but below is all about empowerment for the ladies! Sing along or have a lip sync battle to really add to the party!

Colbie Caillat’s “Try”
Alicia Keys’ “Girl on Fire”
Rachel Platten – Fight Song
Demi Lovato’s “Confident”
Beyonce’s “Run the World”
Hailee Steinfeld’s “Love Myself”
Selena Gomez’s “Who Says”
Martina McBride’s “This One’s For the Girls”
Katy Perry’s “Roar”
Destiny’s Child “Independent Women”
Robyn’s “Dancing on my Own”
Cher’s “Strong Enough”

Details: Pop, Fizz, Clink! The Universal Sound of HAPPY! An affordable, award -winning line up of woman-owned French wines celebrating courtships is the ultimate detail! Cheers to the gals!

Simple, Easy, & FUN!

White & Milk Chocolate Fondue By Christina Lang of Dessert For Two

Ingredients

Chocolate fondue:

♥  5 ounces chocolate (chips or chopped chocolate)
♥  1/3 cup half and half

White chocolate fondue:

♥ 5 ounces white chocolate (chips or chopped chocolate).
♥ 1/3 cup half and half

For serving:

♥ Baguette cut in cubes
♥ Pretzels
♥ Fresh pineapple
♥ Strawberries
♥ Cream cheese cut in squares
♥ Marshmallows
♥ Cookies
♥ Your favorite things!

Instructions:

Place each type of chocolate chip into serving container. Heat the half and half in a microwave-safe dish until boiling. Keep an eye on it so it doesn’t boil over! Pour the half and half over each dish. Let it sit for 1 minute without stirring. Stir the mixture together until it is smooth and creamy. At first, it won’t look like it will come together, but it will! Keep stirring! Serve each fondue with fresh fruit, cookies, and marshmallows. Enjoy!

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Special Galentine Delivery

Separated by distance but never in heart! Send a sparkling Galentine’s Gift to your besties who can’t gather for a party using our wine lover’s gift guide:

Embrace the French spirit of joie de vivre, share some sparkle, & spread JOY!

Gift giving should be fun, easy, & thoughtful and you can’t go wrong gifting award-winning, elegant, French wines.

Each scoring 90+ points, these bottles make beautiful, elevated gifts everyone appreciates, especially if shopping for the wine lover in your life!

 “Maybe we could be each other’s soul mates. And then we could let men be just these great nice guys to have fun with.” – Charlotte York, SATC

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Strawberry Lemonade Peach Sparkling Frosé Wine Slushy Recipe

Ingredients Frosé / Wine Slushy!

2 cup Le Grand Courtâge Brut Rosé, chilled
1 cup of Natalie’s OJ Strawberry Lemonade, frozen into ice cubes
2 cups peaches, chopped and frozen

Directions

1. In a blender jar, combine chilled Sparkling Rose, frozen cubes of Strawberry Lemonade, and frozen peaches
2. Blend until smooth
3. Pour into champagne flutes

(Makes 4-6 drinks)

Grab one Iced Carafes and keep your Frosès chilled by the pool.

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Sparkling Mint Julep Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

3-4 Mint Leaves (twist them as you add to release their flavor and aroma)
3 oz Bourbon
2 tbsp Simple Syrup
1/2 cup Blackberries
1 oz Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs Brut Ice cubes

Fill a julep or small rocks glass overflowing with ice cubes. In a shaker, muddle the blackberries, mint leaves, and simple syrup. Add 1 cup of ice cubes and bourbon to the shaker and shake well. Strain the drink into the glass filling it 3/4 full. Top with Le Grand Courtâge, gently stir to combine. Garnish with blackberries and mint.

Image source: Creative-culinary.com

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Cucumber-Jalapeño Sparkling Mojito Recipe

Ingredients

1 oz Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs
1-½ oz Vodka
1 oz Lime Juice
¾ oz Simple Syrup
3 Cucumber Slices
3 Jalapeño Slices
3 Mint Leaves

Instructions:

Add all ingredients except for bubbles. Muddle, shake, and strain into a glass then add the bubbles. Top with ice. Garnish with a cucumber wheel and mint sprig.

Recipe Inspiration: saloonbox.com

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Le Grand Courtâge Pink Pearl Brut Rosé Cocktail Recipe

Pink Pearl

1-½ oz Gin
1 oz Elderflower Liqueur or Simple Syrup
½ oz Aperol
1 oz Grapefruit Juice
3-4 oz Le Grand Courtâge Brut Rosé

Add gin, elderflower liqueur, or simple syrup, Aperol, and grapefruit juice to a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake until chilled.

Strain the mixture into a flute. Top with Le Grand Courtâge Brut Rosé.

Image source: Chowhound.com

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Elderflower French 75 Cocktail Recipe

French 75 cocktail recipe

  Ingredients:

1 oz Vodka or Gin
1/2 oz Elderflower Liqueur or Simple Syrup
1/2 oz Lemon Juice
2 oz Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs Brut or Brut Rosé
Lemon Twist Garnish

Preparation :

Combine gin, elderflower, and lemon juice in a shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled coupe.

Top with Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs Brut, garnish with a lemon twist & enjoy your beautiful French 75.

Inspiration: LoveandVictory.com

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Le Grand Courtâge Cranberry Orange Rosemary Sparkling Cocktail

Virtual Tasting

Ingredients

1 ½ cups of water

1 sprig of Rosemary

2 cups of Cranberry Juice

1 cup of Triple Sec

1-750 ML Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs Brut

Cranberries for garnish

Directions

Bring 1-1/2 cups water and 1 sprig of Rosemary to a boil in a pot. Let steep for 10 minutes. Remove the Rosemary sprig. Add rosemary water, cranberry juice, and Triple Sec to a bowl and whisk. Place the bowl in the refrigerator to cool for about 2 hours.

Remove the bowl from the refrigerator and distribute the cocktail mixture into coupes or flutes, about 4-5 oz. Top with Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs Brut.

Created by EndlesslyElated.com

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Fizzy Spiked Pear Punch Recipe

Fizzy Spiked Pear Punch
Instructions:

Pour pear juice, vodka, and simple syrup into a pitcher and stir to combine. Pop a bottle of Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs Brut and slowly pour the full bottle into the juice mixture in your pitcher. Stir again, gently. Fill glasses to the top with ice and serve up your pear punch! Garnish with slices of pear. Adjust the sweetness by adding more or less simple syrup, or skip it entirely!

Adapted from thesweetestoccasion.com

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Le Grand Courtâge x Chilled Cocktail Competition Top 20

Announcing the Top 20 Entries from the Le
Grand Courtâge x Chilled Cocktail

The *POP* of the cork is the universal sound of happiness and Sparkling Wine is an extremely versatile cocktail ingredient as the bubbles add a nice textural element with the effervescence, and the acidity offers a great balance point. Our price and palate make Le Grand ​Courtâge perfect for cocktails.

We wanted the creation to embody the French spirit of Joie de Vivre and live joyously as we are about elevating and celebrating every day! We spent the last few months collecting recipes from bartenders and mixologists all over America to see who embodied the spirit of Le Grand Courtâge the best.

A special Merci Beaucoup to everyone who entered! Stay Tuned on our socials for our next Competition/Contest & other exciting news!

Showcasing the Top 20 Live Joyously Sparkling Cocktail Contest Entries

#LGCLiveJoyously



Chilled Cocktail Competition Sparkling wine champagne French cocktail recipe rosé

Je Ne Sais Quoi – Dallas Juanes

Preparation: Add all ingredients except for the rosé into your shaker tin and roll the tin to incorporate the contents. Strain into a collins glass top with ice and finish with the Le Courtâge Brut Rosé to finish the drink. Garnish with a stick of rosemary picked with figs dehydrated lemon and a seasonal flower. *Rosé and Fig Simple:  2 cup Le Grand Courtâge Brut Rosé 2 cups sugar 2 cups figs.  In a small saucepan add the rosé and dates and slowly bring up to summer. Reduce by 1/3. Strain figs out and return to saucepan. Add sugar and let cool. 2 weak shelf life in the fridge.

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Perfect Pearing – Steven Huddleston

Preparation: Shaken Autumn Syrup: 3 Madagascar Vanilla Beans Split paste removed & added to 12oz of water along with beanstalk 12oz of sugar & 14g of allspice. Put on a simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and strain using fine shimwa. Super Lime Juice: 20 grams of fresh lime peels 6.66g of malic acid 13.33g of citric acid steeped in peels. Add 333g of water and Lime juice from peel limes. Blend acid oleo lime juice and water together. Strain through fine mesh shimwa. Clarification: Add the entire cocktail excluding Le Grand to a cambro with cold whole milk. Lightly stir to incorporate. Let sit for 2-3 hours or until separation occurs. Gravity Stain 3 times through the coffee filter. The whey from the milk clarification adds a beautiful texture element. Garnish: 1/4 Dehydrated Pear Slice & Freshly Grated Cinnamon Combine & Enjoy.

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Pearadise – Aaron Joseph

Preparation: Serve in Ice Filled Collins Glass Garnish Clove studded Pear Slices and Dehydrated Pineapple Slice Instructions Place Gin, Lime Juice, Spiced Pear Syrup, and Ice into a mixing tin. Cap tins and shake vigorously. Strain the Cocktail into Collins Glass. Add Le Grand Coutage Blanc de Blanc and filled with Ice. Garnish with Pear Studded slices of Pineapple Slice. Enjoy! *Spiced Pear Syrup: 1.5 cup Pear Juice , .5 cups granulated sugar .5 tablespoon Cardamon 4-5 Cloves .5 tablespoon chopped and fresh Ginger .5 tablespoon of vanilla extract .Combine in a saucepan cooking until sugar dissolves, and then simmer on very low for 15 minutes. Cool and strain out spices.

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Strawberry Moon – Jon Mateer

Preparation: Combine the Gin Sherry Cardamaro Lemon & Strawberry/Peppercorn Syrup into a tin and shake with ice until diluted. Strain into an empty collins glass. Fill with pebble ice. Then top with the sparkling Le Grand Courtage Blanc de Blanc Brut. Mound pebble ice. Then garnish with a strawberry slice and mint bouquet. Strawberry Peppercorn Syrup:  Combine 300g fresh cut strawberries and 20g of crushed pink peppercorns with 1000g of Simple Syrup in a vacuum-sealed bag. – Sous vide the contents at 135 degrees for 120 minutes. – Remove from sous vide and chill to room temperature. – Strain the mixture with a chinois or coffee filter. – Label the date and refrigerate until needed for use. Stores for up to two weeks.

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Star of Autumn – Christina Mercado

Preparation: Build all ingredients into a wine glass with ice and stir for 5 seconds gently to combine – garnish with an apple chip to serve! Autumn Syrup recipe: 20 oz brown sugar 3 cinnamon sticks 1/2 tsp ginger powder 1/4 tsp allspice powder 1 vanilla bean 8 oz orange juice 6 oz water – bring all ingredients to a boil – let cool then strain – keep in an airtight container and refrigerate until use.

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Romancing The Stone – Christopher Day

Preparation: Build all but Le Grand Courtâge into a shaker tin and shake thoroughly with ice. Pour 3 oz of Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs into narrow collins or rocks glass and strain the tin into the glass to let mix. Fill with cracked or pebble ice and garnish with a dried apricot skewered with rosemary.

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Fig & Rose 75 – Robert Chavez

Preparation: Combine the first 4 ingredients into a shaker;  Add ice to the tin Shake for 10 seconds and double strain into a Coupe glass.  Add 4 drops of bitters to the strained cocktail and top with Champagne. 4 drops Scrappy’ New Orleans bitters 3 oz Le Grand Courtage Rose Brut. Garnish with 3 sliced Figs White Rose and 24 ct Gold Edible Gold flakes.

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Joy Broker – Alex Taylor

Preparation: Combine all ingredients except brut rose in a shaker tin; vigorously shake for 12-15 seconds. Fine strain into a snifter (in which a standard-sized ice ball has been placed). Top with Brut Rosé and give a quick stir to integrate the ingredients. Garnish with Trimmed Lemon Peel Strawberry Edible Orchid. Serve and enjoy.

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A Little Peach & Quiet – Tara Gillum

Preparation: Start by making your shrub. For this cocktail, I have made a Peach Rosemary Shrub. Add 1 cup of apple cider vinegar 1/2 cup of sugar 1 sprig of rosemary and 1 cup of peach preserves. Cook all of the ingredients in a saucepan on medium heat stirring often and until all of the ingredients are incorporated. Use a fine strainer to remove the hard particles and store them in an air-tight container. To build the cocktail start with ice in your Boston shaker and add The Botanist Grand Mariner and the shrub to it and shake. Then strain the liquid into a champagne flute and top it with Le Grand Courtage Brut. Garnish with a peach rose skewered with rosemary.

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Bubble Of Peace – Marie Yoshimizu

Preparation: Garnish with sage and dehydrated rose  Combine all ingredients except for the Brit Rose and garnish in a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until chilled.  Strain into a champagne coupe.  Garnish with a dehydrated rose and sage leaf *Concord Grape Shrub: Muddle .5 cup of Concord grapes in a bowl. Add .75 cup of sugar and stir to combine. Let it sit in a jar for at least 24 hours. Strain the muddle grapes with a fine mesh cloth in a bowl and discard the grapes. Add .5  cup of white wine vinegar and stir to combine. Transfer into a jar to store it in a fridge or use it in cocktails.

Chilled Cocktail Competition, Sparkling wine champagne cocktail recipe fall winter

Everything Changes – Timmie Hoffman

Preparation: All into a shaker and dry shake and then add about a cup of ice and shake again. Double strain into a stemmed glass and top with 1.5 oz of Le Grand Courtage Blanc to Blanc and topped with a dash of cinnamon and served with a side of Le Grand Blanc to Blanc. Homemade Pumpkin pie spiced butternut squash Maple syrup: I took a cup of diced butternut and 2 tablespoons of butter and simmered until the butter was browned and the squash was soft (about 20-25 minutes) Then I added a half cup of maple syrup simmered for 5 minutes and macerated into a jam like consistency.

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Grow a Pear – Leah Dufresne

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice (excluding prosecco) shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass top with 2 oz. Le Grand Courtage Blanc de Blanc. Garnish candied pear sugared geode.

Chilled Cocktail Competition, Sparkling wine champagne cocktail lychee recipe

Happy-Go-Lychee – Ginny Lanndt

Preparation: Shake all but wine with ice and strain into a chilled coupe with cucumber ribbon then top with wine. Add cucumber and lychee garnish.

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Joy To The Pearled – Tim Weigel

Preparation: Muddle the raspberries and add the remaining ingredients (except the GC sparkling rose). Shake with ice and add the Grand Courtage sparkling rose. Double strain over fresh ice inside of a crystal rocks glass. Garnish with lime wheel topped with some raspberry cocktail caviar. Ube syrup: mix a 1:1 simple syrup with ube puree and allow to mix. Strain the syrup.

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Le Liberté – J.A.Harrison

Preparation: Juice heirloom melons (I sourced Piel de Sapo heirloom melons locally). Combine 1 part melon juice with 1 part Le Grand Courtâge Blanc and 2 parts sugar and stir together to combine heating gently on the stovetop as necessary to incorporate Add all liquid ingredients in a highball glass over crushed ice and swizzle to incorporate garnish with a dusting of red currant powder and serve.

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Le Reveur – Danniel Keaveney

  • 1oz Plantation OFTD Rum
  • .5 oz Strawberry Syrup (.5 cup sugar .5 cup water cook until dissolved. Blend with an immersion blender. Strain with a fine mesh strainer)
  • .5 oz Lemon Juice
  • .5 oz Dry Orange Curaçao

Preparation: Shake with ice Double Strain into champagne flute Add 4-5 dashes of Fee Brothers Peach Bitters Fill with Le Grand Courtâge Brute Rose. Garnish the champagne flute by painting on some Strawberry syrup and placing lemon Zest on the glass.

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Seaside Joy – Daniel Friedman

Preparation: Combine rum lemon hibiscus honey and passion fruit liqueur in a shaker. Shake with ice for 9 seconds. Fine strain into a rocks glass with a large cube. Add brut to cocktail then top with pineapple coconut milk foam. Place 4 drops of angostura bitters on the foam and swirl. Garnish with bamboo leaves and orchids. Enjoy! Pineapple coconut milk foam: add one can (13.5oz) of unsweetened coconut milk and 2oz of Reál pineapple syrup to an ISI whipper charge and shake well. Hibiscus-infused honey: Make hibiscus tea by boiling 1 cup of loose hibiscus in 2 cups of water for 5 minutes or until deep ruby red. Add 64 grams of hibiscus tea for every 100 grams of wildflower honey.

Sparkling wine champagne cocktail recipe orange dessert

Sugar, Spice & Orange You Nice. – Nadine Madina

Preparation: Shake the first 2 ingredients til well chilled with ice in a shaker tin. Pour into a 5-ounce champagne tulip glass. Top with Le Grand Courtage Brut. Garnish; Orange candy drizzle with dark chocolate edible gold paint and 24-karat gold leaf.

Sparkling wine cocktail recipe apple champagne fall autumn diy

This That Glitter….Is! – Nicole Salicetti

  • 1.25 oz *salted butter croissant fat-washed vodka
  • .5 oz fresh Meyer lemon juice
  • .75 oz *green apple syrup
  • 2 oz Le Grand Courtage Brut Champagne
  • 3 dashes of grapefruit bitters

Preparation: Put a small amount of edible cocktail glitter into the champagne coupe prior to pouring the cocktail in. Put all ingredients less champagne into a shaker and shake with plenty of ice. Strain into a coupe and stir so that glitter swirls in the glass. Top with champagne and lay a glass apple gently on side of the glass. How to make homemade ingredients: *Salted butter croissant fat-washed vodka: soak one buttery croissant (86 g) into 200g of vodka (I chose Grey Goose) and .5 tsp salt. Let sit for 90 minutes and then remove the croissant from the liquid and place the vodka in the freezer. Gently separate the fat solids and strain the remaining liquid through coffee filters to get the final product. *Green apple syrup: juice enough green Granny Smith apples to yield 168g. Mix that juice with .6g of citric acid. Blend that mixture at room temperature on high speed for 5 minutes with 336g of sugar. *Glittered Gold Glass Apple garnish: slice green apples with a mandolin to 2.5 mm and place them in a lemon water bath. Then place slices on Silpat on a baking tray and place another tray on top. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes at 205°. Remove from heat and remove the top tray. Place back in the oven at reduced heat for 60 minutes more at 175°. Remove from oven and let sit for an hour. Make caramel syrup by combining 70g water and 200g sugar over heat in a pot adding 5g vinegar and 37g glucose stirring until boiling begins. Monitor temperature with a thermometer until it reaches 315° and then remove from heat. Dip slices of apple into syrup and lay flat to dry on Silpat. Dust with glitter.

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Le Grand Courtâge Blackberry French 75 Sparkling Cocktail Recipe

Frosé recipe slushy

Sparkling wine cocktails are causing a scene with their hubby personalities, radiant colors, and fun seasonal touches. Personally, we at Le Grand Courtage have become moderately obsessed! Below is our tried and true Blackberry French 75 sparkling cocktail for you to make at home. Once you’ve fallen in love with this recipe, let your creative juices (pun intended) start flowing and swap out the blackberries with your favorite seasonal fruits.

Ingredients
½ cup Water
½ cup Sugar
¼ cup Fresh blackberries
1 oz Gin
1 tbsp Fresh lemon juice
2 oz Le Grand Courtâge Blanc de Blancs Brut
Fresh blackberries and lemon rind for garnish

Instructions: In a small pan, add the water, sugar, and blackberries. Simmer for 5 minutes, stirring, and then strain into a heatproof container like a mason jar. Set aside until cool and then chill in the refrigerator until ready to use.

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add 2 tbsp of the blackberry simple syrup, 1 oz gin, 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice, and then shake vigorously. Strain into a cocktail glass and then top with about 2 oz of Blanc de Blancs Brut. Garnish with a lemon rind and fresh blackberry if desired & enjoy your Blackberry French 75.

Adapted from: heatherchristo.com

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