Stopping Up Your Champagne

I posted a few days ago about the difference between sparkling wine and champagne. Well today, I came across an interesting and informative article on another great wine blog, http://peterliem.com/, that discussess the merits of cheap champagne stoppers to keep a bottle fresh for days at a time.

You can follow the link above to read Peter's complete entry, but I'll give a brief summary here. Basically, a lot of people don't like to drink sparkling wines and/or champagne at home because they feel like they have to drink the entire bottle in a single evening. Peter mentions that many bottles of young champagne hold up remarkably well for up to three or four days, as long as you use a champagne bottle stopper.

These work a lot like a normal bottle stopper, except that they create an air-tight seal that locks in the wine and keeps the bubbles from dissapating. He even says that a lot of young sparklers tend to be even more interesting (and tasty) after they've been open for a day.