This day recognizes the wine that puts the pop in New Year’s Eve celebrations. Made in France’s Champagne region northeast of Paris where the climate and soils are ideal for producing the varieties of grapes needed for its production, champagne ferments in the bottle unlike other wines, trapping CO2 in the bottle and giving the sparkling drink its effervescence. 

New Year’s Eve, or December 31, is the ideal occasion for celebrating champagne, given its close connection to the holiday in the United States since the 1800s. Much of the rest of the world celebrates Champagne Day in late October, but in the United States it is New Year’s Eve,