Grilled cheese and tomato soup + sparkling Chardonnay

"While researching #corkdorkbook, a collector who'd just guzzled thousands of $$$ worth of Burgundy offered me a palate cleanser of Champagne — 'French alka seltzer,' he called it. Not wrong! And also why grilled cheese + tomato soup go great with this Cremant du Jura (sparkling Chardonnay, made like champagne but wayyyy cheaper). The wine's acid cuts through the fatty cheese, but stands up to the acidic tomato soup."