Tiffenii Mumphrey isnt a big drinker.
But onelection night 2016, she readied a bottle of Korbel champagne to toast to Americas first female president.
I will maybe open it if we could indeed get our first woman president.
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North Carolina resident Leslie hopes to open her eight-year-old bottle of champagne (seen here) when Harris wins.
One such woman is Virginia resident Deborah Usry, whose2016 election night watch partyleft revelers in tears.
Although she had bubbly ready to pop for her nearly two dozen guests, no one wanted a sip.
For a number of women, unopened champagne bottles from 2016 have been transformed into potable markers of progress; seen here, the champagne being saved by Deborah Usry.
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.
North Carolina resident Leslie hopes to open her eight-year-old bottle of champagne (seen here) when Harris wins.
She has vowed to drink the bottle when America elects its first female president.
I hope to have a reason to open it.
Usrys brut might not taste the same as it did in 2016.
Jessica Hulse Dillon opened her bottle of champagne as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered their victory speeches.
But politics supersedes taste for these 2016 champagne savers.
Clinton was seen by many of her supporters as the culmination of the womens suffrage movement.
She doesnt style herself as someone whos been kind of patiently waiting for this.
Kim Wright also decided to open her bottle when America elected its first female vice president, Kamala Harris. “It tasted like compromise,” she says.
Jessica Hulse Dillon opened her bottle of champagne as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered their victory speeches.
Some women have used their toast-to-Clinton bottles to celebrate other political milestones.
Jessica Hulse Dillon, who lives in California, moved twice after the 2016 election.
But Dillons unused champagne jumped from house to house like a family heirloom.
It stayed in the back of the fridge, she says.
It moved every time and just sort of stayed and hung out.
We had all three kids sitting there, she says.
It was pretty exciting.
She returned home, champagne in hand, and placed her bottle of Korbel in her refrigerator.
I moved three times, she says.
I kept carrying that bottle with me.
When television networks declared Joe Biden as the winner, she drank the four-year-old bottle on the deck.
It tasted like compromise, she remembers.
Kim Wright also decided to open her bottle when America elected its first female vice president, Kamala Harris.
It tasted like compromise, she says.
After recent political events, some bottle savers are more cautious.
She never went to retrieve it.
I could not bear to take it out, she says.
That felt like losing hope.
On Bidens Inauguration Day, Leslie felt relief more than any other emotion.
But that doesnt mean celebrating on election night.
Im afraid to jinx anything, she says.
I dont think Ill be able to breathe until shes inaugurated.
