A little bubbly for the holidays?  Mais, oui!  If we are not drinking wine and champagne during this time, we are giving it as a host or hostess gift.  Here are 3 helpful items from wine.com™to make the giving and drinking of wine more enjoyable:

1.  Keeping it chilled.    Not real difficult in Minnesota, we simply use our outside refrigerator box–the front or the back porch, whichever is convenient.  However, once inside even we need to keep it cool during the festivities.  wine.com™ Bottle Deluxe wine and champagne chiller sleeve is an inexpensive solution.  At $13.99 you store the sleeve in your freezer, wrap it around a bottle of bubbly, up to 2 liters, and secure it with its hook tape closure .  What could be easier?

2.  Accidents Will Happen.  Why do they always happen when you decide to set your table with your finest Irish linen white tablecloth?  No worries, wine.com™ to the rescue with their Wine Away Red Wine Stain Remover.  Yes, we all know there are good home remedies, but why not take the guess work out of it?  For $8.99, this 8 oz. bottle will remove red wine, red cranberry, red punch stains from carpet and fabric  without bleach and is safe to use around  pets and small children.  MDM says this is one sure way to prevent "vintage wine stains" from being inherited along with the keepsake linens.

3.  To Kill or Not To Kill The Bottle.  Just a little vino is left in the bottle, not enough to refill all the glasses, but too much to drink by yourself.  Or, after all the shopping, decorating, and gift wrapping the very last present, you would like to relax with a glass of wine, but don’t want to open a new bottle only to see it go flat.  Try this Wine Preserver at $9.99.  A tasteless, harmless gas will preserve the wine that is left in the bottle for further use.  Used by restaurants and vintners alike, this gas blocks out the oxygen, preserving the wine’s bouquet and taste. 

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