Chandon Riche - poser stuff! :)

NYE will be spent wandering around Edinburgh city centre with the kids at the street party so it will be Scotland's finest champagne all round.....IRN BRU

www.irn-bru.co.uk

nickyboy

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That stuff is crazy!!! I have Scottish friends back here and every time I'm over in Scotland (which isn't that much admittedly), I'm asked to bring back multiple 3L bottles of Irn Bru for them.

for myself and friends....salon le mesnil blanc de blancs 82....for the rif raff...perrier jouet cuvee;)

415 a bottle at bellmont wine exchange in califrornia.....

This New Year's Eve, we will probably drink not much of anything as we are having a party and one of our closest friends went off the wagon and doesn't want to be around any alcohol until he is sober again for awhile. Other people that are coming either aren't big drinkers anyway or they are coming quite a distance and don't want to drive home afterwards and risk a DUI.

At least one bottle of Deutz and perhaps a few bottles of lesser known houses (since we are in Paris and will celebrate NYE here).

Moet Chandon Rose for the wife and me .... for the riff raff -- frexinet...to pop....a really really cheap stuff found in the liquidation bin at local store !!

Three Squirrels of course. An undiscovered English sparkler which I enjoy, and can only be bought directly from the producer. It's still important to remember that good sparkling wine need not be produced in Champagne itself ..... in my opinion, and I have spent quite some time in the area becoming accustomed to what are considered good sparkling wines both by French and International oenologues, there are a lot of unpleasant sparkling wines that do come from there that disappoint. I still consider the pleasurable taste of my 'bubbly' to be more important than its price, regardless of its area of production as my number one criterion.

Bollinger RD 1995 and Krug NV

Not sure yet, but I'm broke this year, so it won't be too extravagant (i.e. Domaine Ste. Michelle is at the top end of my price range this year).

No champagne. We will start the evening with some nice domestic Osetra caviar and blinis accompanied with some good chilled vodka. With dinner we'll have a nice, dry Prosecco (have been spending a lot of time in VCE:))

Prosecco is greatly under-rated (excellent choice) but the good stuff is difficult to find in the US (outside of CA). As for vodka, some of the best is the cheapest, for example TJ in LA sells Monopolowa (made in Austria 100% from potatoes and better than vodkas costing 5 times as much, including all grain vodkas which simply don't have the enzymes that potatoes provide to burn off the impurities).

Same here. Gave up drinking and my wife is pregnant, so no alcohol at my house.