LAST DAY OF 2010


This year New Years Eve will find me and my sweet hubby relaxing quietly at home in front of the fire with a nice bottle of the bubbly. Its been many years since we went out on the town, to some event, or to someone's party to see in the New Year. And these days that suits us just fine. Been there, done that many a time.

This year we settled on Dream Weaver, a nice Tobin James California Champagne, from the winery at Pasa Robles...TOBIN JAMES "DREAM WEAVER" CALIFORNIA CHAMPAGNE 750MLA blend of chardonnay, chenin and muscat, made by the Charmat Method. This fizz a biscuity, floral nose with a nice spice note. Ripe and soft this easy drinker is nicely balenced with a pleasing finish.

I'll be back after the new year to let you know if it is as promised. At $9 a bottle, a small indulgence for a special night, we hope for something slightly nicer than the occasional $3 - $6 bottle of wine we will occasionally spring for... hopefully it goes with chinese take-out, because we are really going low-key this year!

I saw online a news Headline today RE the most expensive bottles of champagne out there, Piper Heisieck 1907 tops the list at $275,000 a bottle!

"Two thousand bottles of Piper Heisieck 1907 vintage were recovered from a sunken ship in 1998. The ship had been transporting the wine from Finland to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in 1916 when the boat was struck by a German torpedo. The bottles were well preserved by the cool temperature and darkness of their undersea cellar. The value of one of these bottles is close to $275,000, making it the most expensive Champagne in the world."

The tragedy is a few of America's (or the worlds) uber wealthy will somehow manage to "enjoy" the maybe 15 minutes sipping indulgence a bottle of this will afford, as millions go hungry and homeless in their backyard. Just think how far that amount of money, for just ONE bottle of this bubbly, would go towards helping feed American's hungry and homeless, the numbers for which are growing in leaps and bounds? And why do we not read about THAT in todays news headlines, or see it on CNN? Statistics show we have 33 MILLION hungry and starving children right now in the US.







Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey