Eight ways you are drinking champagne wrong in the holiday season

Most champagne is the less-expensive non-vintage stuff that blends vintages to achieve a consistent taste and style

This is peak Champagne season, when holiday revellers start thinking bubbles and obsessing over buying and drinking fizz. (I do it all year.) UK-based marketing company Wine Intelligence just released a report that estimates 45 million Americans partake in sparkling wine annually — and some of them drink bubbly only during the holidays. 

Of course, not all of that is expensive champagne. But if you’re not going to splash out a little more for effervescence around New Year’s Eve, when will you? 

Join the party. Just make sure you’re doing it right. 

You’re fooled by flash and familiar names

Most champagne is the less-expensive