LEXINGTON, N.C.-- This New Year's Eve, you don't have to travel far to find a bottle of sparkling wine to pop at midnight.

• Wine makers say to serve sparkling wine in a champagne flute at 45 degrees
• Wine sales in December surpass sales from the prior six months combined
• Experts say there should be no sound when popping open a bottle of the bubbly 

Local are wineries filling their stocks of the bubbly before sales jump around the holidays. Wine makers at Childress Vineyard say wine sales during the month of December surpass sales from the prior six months combined.

They follow the traditional method of making sparkling wine, where they ferment it twice.

"Normally, the fermentation occurs where the carbon dioxide just bubbles out of the top of the tank. The goal of this is to trap all of that carbon dioxide inside the bottles so you have all the pressure inside the bottle," wine maker Mark Friszolowsk said.

Wine makers recommend you serve sparkling wine in a champagne flute at 45 degrees.

"When you open a champagne bottle, people like to hear that sound. As soon as you hear pop, people are like 'oh somebody's having a party.' What you really want to do is open it without any sound at all because as you're opening it with that loud pop you're losing a lot of that pressure," Friszolowsk said.