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Don't Freeze Champagne This New Year's Eve. Here's Why By Alexa Valme Dec. 10, 2025 6:39 am EST

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New Year's Eve tends to turn even the most organized hosts into last-minute chillers, which is how so many bottles of bubbly end up wedged between frozen peas. It feels like a convenient fix, but when drinking champagne, this is the biggest mistake to steer clear of . The freezer might seem like the fastest way to get a bottle cold, yet it does more than overchill the wine — it starts messing with the very qualities that make good champagne worth opening in the first place.

Champagne freezes more easily than most people think. Because it's a mix of water, alcohol, sugar, and dissolved carbon dioxide, it hits its freezing point somewher

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