New Year's Eve sparkling wine tasting

I stopped at the old PA wine & spirits store (limited selection) and picked up a few sparkling wines to taste for New Year's Eve.

Here's what I got:

- Barefoot Bubbly Brut Cuvee (Champagne "style")

- Cavit Lunetta Prosecco

- Freixenet Cordon Negro Cava Brut

- Elmo Pio Asti Spumante

Here are some terms defined to help understand these wines.

- Brut: Very Dry

- Cuvee: First press or special batch

- Asti Spumante: sparkling wine produced in the town of Asti in Piedmont, Italy. Made from the Moscato Bianco grape, it is sweet and low in alcohol, and often served with dessert.

- Cava: is a Spanish sparkling wine made in the traditional method of the French sparkling wine

- Champagne: is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of the wine to effect carbonation. Made exclusively in Champagne region of France.

- Prosecco: a dry sparkling wine, generally made from grape variety Glera, which is grown in the Veneto region of Italy.

Phyllis's Homemade Apple Sauce

Ingredients:

4 apples - peeled, cored and chopped
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions:
In a saucepan or crock pot, combine apples, water, sugar, and cinnamon.
Cover, and cook over medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes, or until apples are soft.
Allow to cool, then mash with a fork or potato masher.