What wine will you be serving at Christmas?

[SonnyHoney]

I'm Hosting for the first time in about 10 years and need inspiration for the wine.

What wine will you be serving on christmas day ?

Whatever is on special offer at Tesco!

Cremant de Loire before with canapés, Barbera with, port after with Christmas pud or mince pies.

I haven't figured out what food I'm serving yet let alone the wine!

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We have beef on Christmas Day and my favourite wine is from the Bordeaux region, we have a special 2009 vintage this year. Cremant for Christmas Eve

I like white with Christmas dinner, nice glass of Gavi. A cremant with canapés first. DH will pick a claret. Pedro Ximinez Barbadillo la Cilla sherry with pudding.

Also agree with a Gavi for lunch. Primitovo if on the red .We tend to go English sparkling for morning, Chapel Down or Gusbourne.

I have white in but all my family drink red even with turkey. I buy so I just chose my personal faves 😂

Cremant with the pre lunch smoked salmon and prawns etc, then it’s always Chateauneuf- du-pape for the red wine drinkers but I’m a Chenin blanc lover.

We have a Cremant from Lidl for the starter then a really lovely red we brought back from a vineyard in Tuscany for the nain

Usually, sparkling English with breakfast, then something like a Crozes Hermitage with lunch.

Usually a Pinot noir with the turkey or a Chablis if drinking white.

We have champagne with our smoked salmon starter (leftover from bucks fizz in the morning), we usually have Chateauneuf du Pape with the turkey, but I have bought Gigondas this year. Dessert wine with the pudding, Australian, usually and port with cheese later.

I try and get my Christmas wine when the 25% offers are on.

I am assured that I won't need to buy anything at all this year as DH has made wine using the grapes from the garden, a kit he got for Christmas last year and absolutely zero talent. I am told it is "clearing" and that the taste is "improving" - which is good news as last time I looked it was the colour of weak Ribena (surprising given the grapes were green) and tasted like rocket fuel.

I’m really into Shiraz at the moment and I like Australian wine. So McGuigan or Yellow Tail. I was into Errazuriz for a while. So all around £7-9, frequently on offer. I don’t find wines at £15/20 much better (I don’t have a discerning palate) and I’m not going to be spending more than that ever. I’m the only one that drinks in my family.

We normally have a champagne while opening presents. Don't know which one but it will be a grands cru from a grower.

With the turkey will likely be a choice of a NZ Sauvingion Blanc (because my mother like that) or a Spanish red (probably Clos Font de la Figuera).

A few days in France over half term for us to stock up on goodies including the Christmas wine.

Crémant de Bourgogne, Bourgogne Aligoté & Lussac Saint Emilion.

Whatever has a pretty design on the bottle and is a decent price! I'll only be having one glass anyway so I don't really care what it tastes like.

Please nip to a shop and stash some, just in case....

For the C9DP (chateau neuf) folks, if you see Lirac its about half price and same blend

Buck’s Fizz with breakfast, Martini Asti with lunch and mulled wine and/or baileys hot chocolate in the evening! I am a child of the 80s though…

Cremant de Jura when we are all here for our usual pre dinner toast while we chat. Also have a Cremant de Loire on standby.

My brother is bringing something and he's quite knowledgeable about wine so I expect it will be nice whatever he turns up with. I'm no connoisseur so I leave it to him.

Oh yes, I will. I am just concerned that once we've all had a bit, no one will be able to taste anything else. Can you remember that home made limoncello tasting clip that did the rounds on social media during Covid? It'll be like that.

Supermarket Sauvignon Blanc.

Well since I will be enduring a day of MIL (who I get on fine with) and DH quietly sparring, I shall be drinking whatever I can get my hands on. MIL doesn't drink, nor does DS and DH doesn't day drink. So I suspect that it'll just be me and DD steadily getting sloshed on anything at all as the day goes on.

You do know that we'll be demanding an update on Christmas day, don't you?😂