Put a cork in it :: a slow + simple way to preserve your Champagne

Jessica Gordon Ryan/The Entertaining House

For many the festivities are still continuing... Lazy late morning brunches make way for early afternoon glasses of bubbly by the fire. Unlike wine, it's simply not possible to put a cork back into a champagne bottle. You could try a wine cork, but I am quite certain that air would escape, allowing those precious bubbles to do the same... That would be tragic! Nearly as tragic as letting any remaining champagne go to waste. My grandmother, who embodied all things proper and chic, would be aghast to let any Champagne go to waste. She devised this most simple and most clever of ideas. With what you have in your kitchen you can preserve your champagne for nearly 3 days after it's been corked! I would not kid you about a matter such as this.

All you need is a piece of Saran - or any clear plastic wrap, a rubber band and your bubbly. Simply place the plastic wrap securely over the bottle's opening (as pictured above) and then tie the rubber band around it as tightly as possible. Instantly you will see a small pocket of air being trapped, this ensures that your bubbles are trapped as well.

So go pop that cork!
Enjoy those bubbles!
And now, knowing that you can safely preserve what hasn't been consumed, maybe you'll have champagne more often... with Chinese food, or pizza even!

When Dom Perignon first tasted his Champagne he is purported to have said
"Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!"

And I am quite certain he was.

Jessica