How to Create an Elegant DIY Holiday Table with Empty Wine Bottles

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How to Create an Elegant DIY Holiday Table with Empty Wine Bottles

Tablescape, the word sounds fancy and daunting, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Check out these simple tips to creating a beautiful table setting perfect for all of your gatherings this season. These DIY ideas all use recycled wine bottles or inexpensive or foraged items.

Start with a Base
If you’re looking to protect your table, forgo the usual tablecloth that can get quite expensive when you’re talking about a large area. Instead, head to your local restaurant supply, craft store, or even butcher for some butcher paper. Measure the length of your table and decide if you want one runner down the center or one on each side of the table under the plates.

Go Foraging
Next, add some seasonal hues to your tablescape. We went to our local park and gathered branches, pinecones and sticks that could be placed down the center of the table. If things are too frozen where you are, stop by your local florist and ask if they would sell you some green trimmings for a few dollars. To add height to the table, place some of the branches in empty wine bottles.

Wine Bottle Candles
No winter table is complete without a bit of magical glow. Place glue inside the neck of the wine bottle and insert candle sticks. Hold in place for a few minute to allow the glue to set. Check out the full process here. Be sure to place the bottles on coasters, small plates, or pieces of parchment so there is something to catch the wax drips during dinner.

Mix and Match
If you don’t have a full set of plates or silverware to serve all your guests, check out a nearby thrift store. Mix and match your place settings to give a cozy rustic feel to the table.

Cork Placecards
Start saving your place cards! Using a piece of sandpaper, sand down one curved side of the cork to make a flat bottom. Directly opposite of the flattened side, using a knife (with extreme caution – use a table vice to hold the cork in place if you have one) make a slit that would hold a business-sized card. Print your guests name on card stock and set them up in the corks before dinner.

Wine into Water
Rather than investing in a costly pitcher, wash out a few wine bottles thoroughly and fill them with cold water. Spread them around the table so none of your guests have to get up during the meal to refill.

Napkins
Let’s all agree that paper napkins don’t feel quite as nice as cloth ones when we are enjoying a nice meal. If you don’t have a proper set of napkins, pull in your cleanest dish towels to help to the job. Because you won’t have a busy-patterned tablecloth, it’s ok to have a hodgepodge of napkin patterns on the table. They will be a fun way to add some color.

Easy Prosecco Cocktails with 5 Ingredients or Less

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Easy Prosecco Cocktails with 5 Ingredients or Less

It’s the perfect time of the year for refreshing sips loaded with spritz, bubbles and pizzaz. We are especially excited because all of these cocktails rely on our new favorite Prosecco. This wine is affordable and perfect on its own or in a cocktail. Fruit-forward on the nose with citrus hints on the tongue, this Italian bubbly is perfect with salty appetizers, a meat and cheese board and all of your favorite crunchy snacks. The next time you stay in for a movie night, serve a bag of chips or homemade popcorn with this bottle. Pure snacking joy! Check out these cocktails for drink inspiration that is doable at home.

Spicy Spritzer Pitcher – makes one pitcher, about 4 to 6 servings
1 jalapeño, sliced
1 lemon, thinly sliced
3 tablespoon agave
6 ounces of tequila
½ bottle Cavit Prosecco

Combine jalapeño, lemon and agave in a large pitcher and muddle together. Stir in tequila and combine until agave is incorporated. Top with Prosecco and serve over ice.

Bubbly Piña colada – makes 1 drink
½ oz coconut milk
1/4 ounce pineapple juice
1/4 ounce lime juice
3 ounces Cavit Prosecco
Garish with a lime slice

Stir coconut milk, pineapple juice and lime juice together in a glass. Top with prosecco and garnish with lime wedge.

Prosecco Raspberry Lemonade – makes one pitcher, about 4 to 6 servings
1 pint of raspberries
4 cups water
1 cup lemon juice
2/3 cup simple syrup (adjust according to preferred taste)
1 bottle of Cavit Prosecco

In a large pitcher, muddle raspberries with water, lemon juice and simple syrup. Serve in glass over ice and top with Prosecco.

Fizzy Plum – makes 1 drink
2 fresh, whole plums or figs
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 cup bourbon
1/2 cup Prosecco

Muddle one fig with the brown sugar. Add bourbon and ice cubes and shake to combine.
Strain into a glass over ice and top with Prosecco.
Garnish with fresh fig.

The Spiked Melon – about 6 drinks
3/4 cups honey
1 cup water
1 ripe cantaloupe
1 bottle Cavit Prosecco
Sprigs of basil to garnish, optional

Warm honey and water together in a saucepan, stirring to combine.
Peel and deseed cantaloupe and place in blender or food processor. Puree until smooth.
Stir honey syrup into melon puree and chill until cool.
Fill each glass halfway with melon mixture, top with Prosecco and garnish with basil sprig.

Cucumber Cooler – about 6 drinks
1 cucumber
6 ounces of gin
3 ounces of simple syrup
½ bottle of Cavit Prosecco

Shave cucumber into 12 strips using a vegetable peeler and set aside. Cut the remaining cucumber into small pieces and muddle with the gin and simple syrup.
Shake mixture together with ice.
Strain mixture into glasses with ice and top with Prosecco.
Garnish with cucumber strips, two per glass.

Cavit Wines: Tips to Pairing Wines with a Thanksgiving Feast

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Cavit Wines: Tips to Pairing Wines with a Thanksgiving Feast

Thanksgiving can be a food-lover’s dream come true, but a wine pairing nightmare. With hearty potato sides and fresh kale salads, it can be hard to find the perfect bottles to pair with all your dishes. Check out these tips and Cavit wines that will help you handle the autumn feast. Cheers!

Kick Things Off… Slowly
As your guests are arriving, open a semi-sweet Riesling to get their palate anticipating dinner. With a fruit aroma, this wine is the perfect pair to your smoked fish or paté appetizers. By staying away from red wines as the start, your tastebuds have time to warm up to the heavy bites while the chilled wine will keep things cool and refreshing. You’ll be the favorite guest at the gathering if you walk in with this bottle chilled and ready to go. Not to mention, you’ll take the stress off your host for a few minutes.

The Turkey’s Best Bud
A well-balanced Pinot Noir is just the wine you want to serve with Thanksgiving dinner. Its bold flavors are the perfect pairing with the main event, the turkey you spent hours roasting. It’s not too big that it will hide your hard work, but will elevate the bird and highlight any herbs you used. This Pinot Noir is a little bit complex, a little bit refreshing. We highly suggest you take a bite of turkey, a sip of wine and repeat.

Pairing with all the Sides
Whether you are talking creamy pumpkin-sauced pastas, stuffings, wild rice with mushrooms, or any of your vegetable sides, this wine is up for the job. A Cabernet Sauvignon hailing from Northern Italy, this wine is rich with berry aromas and aged in oak for a year. Its medium-full body lets the wine play nicely with subtle sides without overpowering them, but is still bold enough to stand up to the hearty flavors of the season.

Spice and Everything Nice
When you and your guests are ready to go back for seconds, now is the time to make room on the plate for the spicy dishes and this Select Red Blend. Made of Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Teroldego grapes, this bottle is rich and is best paired with smoky or spicy foods. Served at a cool cellar temperature, it’s the perfect bottle to refresh the palate in between bites.

After Dinner Refresh
After dinner, but before dessert, we reach for a glass of Pinot Grigio. This bottle is bursting with citrus notes that bring the perfect cool down to the tongue and get the glands salivating again in time for dessert.

Cap It All Off
Don’t neglect dessert! Serve small pours of this Moscato with a simple fruit and cheese plate, a chocolate tart or even pumpkin pie.

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