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    INGREDIENT NOTES

    Oct 08, 2019 5 minutes
    BY HANNAH CROWLEY, STEVE DUNN, ANDREW JANJIGIAN, LAN LAM & ANNIE PETITO

    Preserve the Bubbles in Leftover Bubbly

    Don’t worry if you can’t finish a bottle of sparkling wine in one go or have leftovers after making our Champagne Cocktail on page 9. We found that sealing the bottle with plastic wrap and a rubber band kept sparkling wine surprisingly effervescent for a couple of days. Even better, use a champagne saver. Our favorite, the Cilio Champagne Bottle Sealer, is just $9, and as long as we didn’t repeatedly reopen the bottle, it kept leftover champagne as fresh-tasting and boisterously bubbly as a newly opened bottle for a week.–H.C.

    DIY METHOD

    PREFERRED METHOD

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    With most delicate herbs, including basil

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