Fortunately, with a little strategizing, you can still get your sparkle on this holiday season. Try these tips to make sure there’s plenty of bubbly for toasting from Thanksgiving all the way into 2022. “For other domestic sparkling wines, try cool-weather regions,” Edmondsond says. He recommends wines from Los Carneros, which straddles the southern parts of Sonoma and Napa counties; the Sonoma Coast along the Pacific Ocean; and the Willamette Valley in Oregon. “Oregon is now a strong global contender as far as pinot noir and chardonnay are concerned, both grapes which are used in sparkling wines,” Edmondsond says. For east coast wines, Edmondsond recommends sparkling wines from Virginia or the Finger Lakes area in New York. If you want to keep it French, Edmondsond recommends opting for sparkling wine from Alsace (labeled Cremant d’Alsace) wines from Limoux in the Languedoc region, or Vouvray in the Loire Valley.
