Champagne for my real friends….
Champagne is the best way to bid adieu to the old year and bonjour to the new. Drinking champagne to celebrate important social occasions is a tradition that began with the royal courts of Europe, and the practice of popping a bottle of bubbly at the stroke of midnight trickled down to the middle class; many of us commoners keep the ritual near and dear to our hearts, along with a rousing and slightly ad-libbed rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Continue »