What: Still haven’t bought the Champagne for tonight’s festivities? It’s not too late. Here are some suggestions for Champagne and other sparkling wine to brighten up your New Year’s Eve.
And if you don’t see this article until 2010, you can still use it as a guide the next time you want to pick [...]
Cost: $39.99
What: Vinturi Wine Aerator
I was skeptical when I first heard about this gadget. There were all sorts of claims about how it would age your wine instantly, smoothing off the rough edges. But it seemed too good and too simple to be true.
I was wrong. It is everything you could hope for. This model [...]
Cost: $4.99 for two
What: Rabbit Wine Bottle Stoppers
These little bottle stoppers are nice stocking stuffers. Everybody could use a couple. Stoppers have been around a long time, but these come in bright colors. They’re soft, flexible rubber, so after you pour yourself a glass of wine, just jam the stopper into the [...]
DropStop
Cost: $3.99
What: You’ll never spill another drop of wine if you use DropStop®, a simple, yet ingenious device. It’s a mylar disc that you roll up and put into the neck of the wine bottle. Then you pour and the wine goes into the glass, or back into the bottle, without spilling any [...]
Wine Away stain remover
Cost: $7.95
What: If you drink red wine with any regularity, you eventually will spill some of it on a pretty, white tablecloth, or light colored carpet. Then you will spend hours trying to remove the stain, getting madder every time you rub.
But if you have some Wine Away on hand, you [...]
On the 9th Day of BottleReport’s Christmas Santa brought to me:
Wine Duffel
Cost: $9.99
What: A sturdy bag to carry your wine.
Why: When you want to carry a bottle somewhere–a party, a picnic, to dinner–a wine duffel is perfect. The model pictured here has padding to protect the bottle. If the wine has been chilled, [...]
What: Bottle Toppers
Cost: $5.95
Why: These whimsical bottle toppers are great stocking stuffers, especially with St. Nicholas Day approaching (Dec. 6). That’s when children hang up their stockings, expecting St. Nicholas to fill them with little goodies. That’s what we did when I was a child, even though our apartment and later our house didn’t have [...]
Loving this Wine Oxygennator from Lubbock. Below is the tour of McPherson Cellars in downtown Lubbock, Texas.
Considering Lubbock up until recently was a dry county, this winery is the first of it’s kind in downtown. The wine is delicious and the artwork is beautiful. Enjoy