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Holiday gift idea--champagne savers

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Hope everyone had a delicious turkey and champagne-filled Thanksgiving yesterday! Now that it's officially the holiday season, I know many of us are searching for those perfect gifts and this one I ran across on The Gift Corner blog looks like a winner! Called Champagne Savers, this beautiful leaf-shaped utensil helps keep opened, refrigerated bottles of champagne fresh for up to two days. This is an awesome accessory for anyone who wants to keep leftover champagne drinkable (though I must admit, I never usually have any extra!).

These beauties run about $200-350, and can be purchased at Mary's Garden and Neiman Marcus.  

The foundress of the champagne industry

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Just came across a new book that looks fascinating: The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J. Mazzeo. The book tells the story of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, the woman who made the brand Veuve Clicquot ("veuve" in French, of course, means "widow") a household name and whose vision shaped how the world views champagne today. Defying the traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, as a young widow Clicquot brought champagne onto the world scene and became a business mogul at a time when women engaging in commerce at any level were scarce indeed. Read more

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