The Women Saving Bottles of Champagne for the First Female President of America

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, she readied a bottle of Korbel champagne to toast to America’s first female president.“I wanted to celebrate that moment by doing something that was unconventional for me, which is to have a glass of champagne,” she says.As turned into a sea of red, it became increasingly clear there would be no .

Mumphrey returned the green-hued bottle to a cabinet in her East Texas home, where it has remained untouched for eight years.“I'm saving it for a time where I feel, as a woman, safe in this country again,” she said. “I will maybe open it if we could indeed get our first woman president.”Mumphrey is one of a number of women whose unopened champagne bottles from 2016 have transformed into potable markers of progress.

As vies to break the ultimate glass ceiling, Mumphrey and others are eyeing the bottles they stored almost a decade ago.The champagne bottles being saved by Deborah Usry (L) and Leslie (R).One such woman is Virginia resident Deborah Usry, whose left revelers in “tears.” Although she had bubbly ready to pop for her nearly two dozen guests, no one wanted a sip. “Gradually, as the evening went on, people started leaving,” she says. “I just put that one bottle away.”Usry returned the Saint-Hilaire brut to her wine cooler, where she has kept it for eight years. “I've had plenty of champagne between now and then, and I have other champagne, but now it's become a symbol of women's perseverance,” she says.She has vowed to drink the bottle when America elects its first female president. “I hope to have a reason to open it.”Usry’s brut might not taste the same as it did in 2016.

Most non-vintage champagnes typically lose their flavor after three to four years, while vintage bottles can last for over double that amount.