From Dom Perignon to Lizzie Bordon. What a day of contrasts!

First of all you should research to see if it is worth anything. Visit the GW thread below where a 1985 dom is discussed. Then check out places like http://www.cellartracker.com/wine.asp?iWine=14409 I do not quite understand the term "sell it for charity". You mean something like put it in eBay and sell it, giving the money to some charity? Are you talking about a 1985 Dom Perignon Etched Bottle Champagne worth thousands of dollars, or just a 1985 Dom Perignon like that you can get at any restaurant for a few hundred bucks? Do you know what you have? Has it been stored properly? Do you know it's full history? Would it not be better to have an auction with bidders? Or build an event around it. Sell tickets to the auction with dinner and dancing. Have give-a-ways or drawings of other nice wines to entice people to buy the tickets. Have other wines auctioned off. Advertise the event. If you already have a charity in mind to give the money to, they will have a marketing team in place to organize such an event. If you are planning on doing this on your own, you need to have permission to use the charity's name in association with the sale. If that sounds like too much work, find and ongoing event and offer to donate it for bidding. The bottle better be good or you may end up in small claims court. Here is a link that might be useful: GW Dom Thread

"-- dcarch, if you do happen to have a good recipe for duck soup, please share! I have a nice carcass waiting to be turned into soup. " Ha! Duck soup recipe? according to Groucho Marx, "Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life." Sounds like he didn't like turkey either. I cook like the Marx Brothers do comedy, unconventional, nontraditional and follow no rules. I modify every recipe I come across. Here was the one I adapted and performed surgery on: https://honest-food.net/smoked-duck-soup/ I do feel that using Peking duck instead of smoked duck significantly made the soup more tasty. dcarch

Small above-ground pool (I was going to say window a/c but that was taken lol).