Dom Perignon for Hard Times?

Although wine and scotch are fairly routine at our house, we are by no means heavy or even moderate drinkers. One or two meals a week might be accompanied by wine; tipples of scotch or some other mood-altering libation are relegated to the end of Bad Days.

As I have noted here before, I was given watered down wine as a child and taught that one glass per meal was enough. This was coming from Grandma Annie, whose mother (known here and in the family as Mémere) made her own wine. I've marveled at that, and wondered what kind she made. When I was a child, our neighbors asked if the could pick our dandelions and then a while later presented us with a bottle of dandelion wine, which as I recall was not bad. But what did I know as a kid?

Recently a friend gave me a bottle of homemade strawberry wine, which I am told is extremely potent. Save that for a Really Bad Day.

(I have never considered brewing my own anything. I was shocked recently to learn from my mother than Grandma Annie and a friend once hatched a plan to make bathtub gin in a washing machine. No one can recall if the gin ever got made. The best laid plans...).

I do enjoy buying wine, and even vodka once in a while. It's especially satisfying to purchase a bottle at a good price by auction, and that's how I came by the bottle of Dom Perignon and the two bottles of Champagne that grace my larder.

I'm saving them for a Really Good Day. You could argue, I suppose, that I have recently missed any number of Big Events, including the winter holidays and Valentines Day and before that, Election Day, and maybe even Inauguration Day.

But none of those events felt The Time to Open the Dom. I've been feeling a little guilty about having it in my possession.

What to do?

Should I hoard it a while longer or pop it open?

I'm thinking maybe Easter...