Putting sparkle into the Holiday Season
To try to catch the closing dates for many online operations, there are two posts today. The first offers fabulous red wines for lunch while this one provides the sparkle that no Christmas should be without.
So which red for Christmas lunch?
Nowadays Christmas is not just for turkey, so here are a group of luxury red wines to grace and enhance whatever may form the centre piece your Christmas lunch.
So which white should I select for Christmas lunch?
Christmas lunch calls for a bit of luxury, so today and tomorrow we round off my Christmas selections with suggestions that fill that bill perfectly.
9 Fortified Wines for Christmas
A glass of fortified wine was as much part of Christmas Past as holly and mistletoe but the rise of table wines has reduced the demand – so here is a glimpse of what we are missing.
Upgrading your wine knowledge from as little as £8
No wine drinker wants to appear (if you will forgive the double meaning) as a plonker, so getting advice and extra information from reliable, well written and entertaining books is a Christmas activity that keeps on giving.
Tasty wines at an outlet near you
As a limbering up exercise before Christmas tuck into some of these tasty wines – available at, I guess, the wine retailer with the most outlets nationwide.
Forget Black Friday, today is Golden Thursday
Today’s new Collection from Lidl includes a superb dessert wine that, to me, is a veritable crock of gold at the end of an impressive rainbow of varied wines.
8 good reasons to catch Sainsbury’s 25% off deal
Sainsbury’s begin a new 25% off multi-buy promotion this morning. Use it, for example, to stock up on a tasty red at £3.57 or to knock nearly £8 off a classy Chateauneuf du Pape.
A grand brand to keep at hand
As the latest Tesco promotion seems heavily inclined towards brands, I have tasted through a number of their branded wines and am hugely impressed by one red in particular.
Water, water everywhere
Use these two as an inspiration; even if your local is crowded, there is always a corner away from the hordes!