Buy your bubbly now or end up with the cheap stuff

With New Year’s Eve only ten days away, many Iowans may find themselves scraping the bottom of the wine barrel when it comes to bubbly. Fine champagnes are selling out statewide, according to the general manager of one of Iowa’s largest wine and champagne distributors.Brian Emerson of Quality Wine Company in Des Moines says most of his champagne supply came in this summer and 75-percent of it was gone by November first. He says the coming of the year two-thousand is creating a frenzy of champagne buyers.Emerson says people who want to buy a bottle to celebrate with next weekend had better get to the store soon, or there’ll be nothing left but the really cheap stuff — if that.He says there’s no question this will be THE biggest year ever for champagne sales in Iowa.