The Twelve Days of Christmas with Champagne, Sparkling Wine & Cider: Day Eight

For last night's very small New Year's Eve celebration -- me, my wife and a dog that insisted on being present because she smelled caviar -- I opened a bottle of the Champagne Louis Roederer et Philippe Starck Brut Nature Blanc 2012. I tend to avoid rigorously any Champagne for which the bottle or label was designed by or any input came from a celebrity…