But ordering, pouring, toasting and drinking in a foreign land can be fraught with pitfalls for the unwary.
Lapham, 77, made sure to historically frame the evening before diving into the toasting and drinking, relaying an anecdote about the origin of the word 'toast,' which he attributes to Jonathan Swift in 1709.
If you're at an event such as a wedding and you can't resist a little bubbly, try drinking just one glass of champagne during the toast and drink a different alcohol for the rest of the evening.
And all the concentrated foods you love - toast and Marmite, drinking espressos in the bath - you feel too fragile to do that to yourself.' But she had no desire to change her life.
Her song You And Me makes me think about a sweet western, where the Indians would join together around a fire, toasting marshmallows and drinking all kind of syrups throughout the night.
The Kremlin has apparently decided, he said, that Russian state media risked looking "overly fawning in their attitude to Trump, that all this toasting and champagne drinking made us look silly, and so let's forget about Trump for some time, lowering expectations as necessary, and then reinvent his image according to new realities".
When you are the one being toasted, lifting your glass and drinking to the toast is similar to clapping for yourself, or patting yourself on the back.
My dear 61-year-old, I sat there, half-listening to the toasts and half-drinking the white wine we kept toasting the recipients with, half-eavesdropping on friends catching up on what-has-your-grandson-been-doing, and then I realized what I was hearing.
I would like to make a toast to lying, stealing, cheating and drinking.
In another famous scene Lady Fidget's self-styled "virtuous gang" meet up at Horner's lodging to carouse, throw off their public virtue, and behave exactly like male rakes, singing riotous songs and drinking defiant toasts.
