If you’re having a party tonight and you’re trying to figure out if you bought enough champagne for your crew, this is what to do…
If you want to figure out how many bottles of bubbly to buy for your New Year’s bash, instead of winging it, start with a list of the people who are coming (don’t forget yourself!). Then write down how many glasses of champagne you think each guest is likely to drink—for some it may be none or one…for some, two or three…and for others, well, you are collecting car keys at your front door, right? If you’ve invited people whose drinking habits you don’t know, count each in for two drinks to be on the safe side. Once you’ve added up all the expected servings, you can figure that each bottle of champagne will provide about six four-ounce servings (or 12 two-ounce servings, if you’re toasting with mini portions). If you want to add regular wine to the blend, figure about five glasses per bottle (people tend to pour a little more wine in a glass than champagne). Now you can do the math and then go out and buy the indicated number of bottles…plus one. Like we said, you don’t want to be that guy who runs out, right?
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