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With the sparkling wine, watch out that FAs don't try to serve you the PDB rather than the real champagne that's listed in the menu.
I noticed recently on a flight around the first of the month that wines from the previous month's menu were available on board, which made sense as presumably the aircraft had been catered with wine before leaving the USA.
Sometimes FAs discover bottles of wine on board that aren't on the list if the aircraft previously flew a route that gets different wine, such as South America.