Yesterday I stopped at QFC and picked up a bottle of moscato d’asti, our favorite special occasion sparkling wine. If you’ve never tried this wine, I highly recommend it–it’s light (5.5 alcohol), tastes like a peach, and has soft, refreshing bubbles. (In Italian, it’s *frizzante* rather than *spumante*.)

Ideally, at least. The bottle I bought had gone flat. “Do you think I should return this?” I asked Laurie.

“I think returning a bottle of wine on New Year’s Day and saying it didn’t have bubbles is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard,” she replied.

Here’s to 2009!