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.

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.

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!