The First Day of Christmas with American Sparkling Wine & Cider

For Thanksgiving dinner, I offered three beverages -- an excellent Beaujolais, an exemplary Riesling from Humboldt County, California, and the Nashi Orchards Airlies Redflesh Cider from Vashon Island in Puget Sound. The reaction of our guests was, "O.K., those are nice wines, but could we have more of that cider, please?" I'll admit that I was pretty ta…