Re: Christmas Day Wine
Posted: December 3rd, 2023, 12:43 am
I'm very grateful for all the suggestions. Thank you!
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bungeejumper wrote:A good rounded burgundy is my usual, but it can be pricey. (I see that someone else has mentioned the price of Beaune.)
BJ
monabri wrote:19 crimes is quite quaffable..one if you wife'sfavourites. However the coffee tinged version is truly disgusting.
bungeejumper wrote:A good rounded burgundy is my usual, but it can be pricey. (I see that someone else has mentioned the price of Beaune.) Failing that, a decent Cotes du Rhone Villages - or, if you like your oak, there's nothing very wrong with mainstream Chilean reds, some of which can be very nice indeed.
It looks as though Tesco have extended their 25% off deal until the 17th, which is nice because I think it was due to end today. Asda are also doing the deal.
Which reminds me. Not for Christmas dinner, but I had a sneaky bottle of Asda's ultra-cheapo Vignerons de l'Enclave Cotes du Rhone the other day (£5.50 ), and it was really very drinkable. A bit dry, maybe, but enough body. Reviews from various places confirm that I'm not alone in thinking this. And with another 25% off, it seems like a buy for drinking when you don't need to impress your friends.
BJ
Hypster wrote:I'm very grateful for all the suggestions. Thank you!
Howard wrote:... To finish, a half bottle of Chateau d'YQuem with dessert. The wine merchant should give you good instructions on how to serve all the wine.
Howard
Hallucigenia wrote:...port (at least good port) doesn't go with Christmas pud nearly as well as fortified muscat does. The fruit in port just isn't quite right, whereas the muscat has those raisiny flavours that harmonise perfectly with the Christmas pud, it's one of the all-time great food/wine pairings.
Aussie ones tend to be a bit heavier and more intense which isn't really what I want so much as the French ones which are a bit lighter on their feet.
Port tends to be one of those things that gets opened the night before and mostly gets hit on Christmas evening, but we don't bother with at lunch (ditto cheese) as generally people have just had enough by then.
stewamax wrote:Hallucigenia wrote:...port (at least good port) doesn't go with Christmas pud nearly as well as fortified muscat does. The fruit in port just isn't quite right, whereas the muscat has those raisiny flavours that harmonise perfectly with the Christmas pud, it's one of the all-time great food/wine pairings.
Aussie ones tend to be a bit heavier and more intense which isn't really what I want so much as the French ones which are a bit lighter on their feet.
Port tends to be one of those things that gets opened the night before and mostly gets hit on Christmas evening, but we don't bother with at lunch (ditto cheese) as generally people have just had enough by then.
'Normal' (ruby) port tends to overpower Xmas pud. Think Tawny port that has a bit more tartness.
Or even better, a Gewurztraminer or a Pinot Gris that both have an refreshing 'edge' to the sweetness. And if you like whites with meat, Gewurz is also fine with fatty things like goose and pate.
Or - heresy - try chilled Guinness Foreign Extra.
Lootman wrote:Isn't Pinot Gris dry? Not that I like sweet wines anyway.
UncleEbenezer wrote:Pinot Grigio[1]
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[1] Um, someone please educate me if those aren't the same.
genou wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:Pinot Grigio[1]
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[1] Um, someone please educate me if those aren't the same.
It's the same grape. AFAIK the Italians ( bearing in mind it is mostly in the bit of Italy that was Austria until WW1 ) always vinify it dry. I mostly associate Pinot Gris with Alsace, and there they can make much fatter wines, with more residual sugar, going all the way up to late harvest botrytis affected wine.
Tedx wrote:It's cold.
It's dark.
We spend too much money on it.
I eat too much
It's too commercialised.
There's nothing on the TV.
You have to be nice to people.
I'm sure there's more.
Tedx wrote:I'm sure there's more.
George Bernard Shaw wrote:
Like all intelligent people, I greatly dislike Christmas. It revolts me to see a whole nation refrain from music for weeks together in order that every man may rifle his neighbour's pockets under cover of a ghastly general pretence of festivity. It is really an atrocious institution, this Christmas.
We must be gluttonous because it is Christmas. We must be drunken because it is Christmas. We must be insincerely generous; we must buy things that nobody wants, and give them to people we don't like; we must go to absurd entertainments, that make even our little children satirical; we must writhe under venal officiousness from legions of freebooters, all because it is Christmas - that is, because the mass of the population, including the all powerful middle class tradesmen, depend on a week of licence and brigandage, waste and intemperance to clear off its outstanding liabilities at the end of the year.
As for me, I shall fly from it all tomorrow or next day to some remote spot miles from a shop, where nothing worse can befall me than a serenade from a few peasants, or some equally harmless survival of medieval mummery, shyly proffered, not advertised, moderate in its expectations, and soon over. In town there is, for the moment, nothing for me or any honest man to do.
Gerry557 wrote:Blue Nun will be four quid a bottle
stewamax wrote:An ascetic Benedictine order that promotes mortification of the flesh through frostbite
8 When all have assembled, they should pray Compline; and on leaving Compline, no one will be permitted to speak further. 9 If anyone is found to transgress this rule of silence, he must be subjected to severe punishment