As the old year shuffles off the 2012 stage and a youngster prepares to take its place, New Year’s Eve toasts are as traditional as the sparkling wines, champagne, fireworks and noisemakers.
Here’s some help with your New Year’s toasts:
Henry “Hoby” Wedler, host of “Tasting in the Dark” at Francis Ford Coppola Winery, has a scientific toast: “Here’s to another year of learning about wine, chemistry, and California agriculture!”
Matthew Levy, public relations and marketing manager, Schramsberg Vineyards and J. Davies Estate two excellent suggestions:
“May you have all that you want, and want all that you have. Or, in Zulu they say, “Oogy Wa-wa!”
For those who are not as poetic, you can always claim this traditional Irish toast as your own: “In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.”
(Here’s another tip: Never put California sparkling wine in the freezer. If pressed for time, dunk the bottle in a champagne bucket half-filled with ice and water for 30 minutes.)
Carmen Policy, founder of Casa Piena Winery and former president of the San Francisco Forty-Niners, will raise his glass to a noble grape with the following:
“Let us toast to friends and great cabernet sauvignon which serve as safety nets as we stumble over fiscal cliffs and social pot holes.”
Alison Crowe, winemaker at Garnet Vineyards, shares one of her favorites: “May we live to learn well, and learn to live well. May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.”
Wait, there’s more: Here’s another that will no doubt make you the philosopher of the party: ”May the Giants and Forty-Niners enjoy fame, continued success and wizardry in the New Year; and, may the Best of 2012 be the Worst of 2013.”
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