Plus, a brief history of champagne on NYE

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Happy New Year’s Eve! Tonight’s the night to say goodbye to 2025 and welcome the new year. What better way to do that than with something bubbly — and some fun facts about how it became the beverage of choice?

Why we drink champagne to ring in the new year dates back to France’s King Clovis. When he traveled to the city of Reims, the heart of France’s Champagne region, to be baptized in 496, local wines were served to celebrate. In the centuries that followed, kings traveled to Reims for their coronations, commemorating the events with the region’s best wines.

Champagne wasn’t bubbly until the 1600s, though, when English scientist Christopher Merret figured out how to carbonate it. Eventually it was marketing that made champagne the official beverage of December 31. Today, more than 360 million glasses of sparkling wine are consumed on New Year’s Eve in the United States.

Got your bubbly ready? If not, we’ve put together a list of great champagne-like sparkling wines that won’t break the bank.

Celebrate Like Clovis

360 million glasses of wine are consumed each New Year's Eve in the United States

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