What are you drinking New Year's, New Year's Eve?

[Rosie]

Do tell.

[Jason Perlow]

Egly-Ouriet Ambonnay Grand Cru

Bollinger

and whatever other bubbly comes my way...

[macrosan]

Not being a bubbly fan, I'm lining up some wine bottles. I have a half-case of 1989 Chateau Tracey (a white wine I have enjoyed for many years), a bottle of Pauillac (a recent birthday gift in a Fortnum&Mason wooden case which I haven't even opened yet) and a half-case of Lirac (another unopened gift). I've never even heard of Lirac, but I'm assured by the donor (whose judgement I trust) that I'll like the wine.

So that's 13 bottles so far, now I need to go look at my reserve stock in the garage :)

[Ron Johnson]

Still wine instead of bubbley

1990 Chapoutier Hermitage

1990 Ogier Cote Rotie

1995 Gruad Larose

1997 Guado al Tasso

1990 Ducru Beaucaillou

and whatever anyone else scrounges up from their cellar

[A Balic]

Quantity mostly, but I think that I will get a few older Amorone, some fizz (prosecco I think, so far) and some fortified Australian desert wine (the perfect pudding wine). Hogmanay drinking? Whisky.

[Wilfrid]

I expect to be drinking Brugal or Barcelo rum, served in quantity, over ice, in large paper cups, chased by chilled Presidente cerveza from the larger sized bottles.  I will be standing in a street in Santo Domingo, and with any luck will have lined my stomach with a couple of pounds of perniz (spelling?), a marinated, slow baked pork dish.

[yvonne johnson]

For Christmas and New Year, we're going to try some of the suggestions made by the Two Steves.

http://www.egullet.com/cgi-bin....%20Beer

(Another plug for the tastings! Can we extend the tasting period till the New Year....afterall, New Year's Eve is a big champagne night.)

[Beachfan]

Splurge night for wine:

1994 Bryant Family

1996 Harlan

1985 Dom Perignon

and maybe a Bollinger Grand Annee 1990 at midnight

[DANYRAF]

Drouhin Charmes-Chambertin 1990, Eyrie Res. Pinot Noir 1996, Bollinger Special Cuvee and I have 1 remaining bottle of Bollinger RD 1988