Tis the season to try new wine varietals or labels. And think beyond your Christmas dinner to all those parties and post-Christmas barbies. Rebecca Gibb presents a “12 days of Christmas” guide to festive wine.
The twelve days of Christmas have been filled with drinking, dancing and eating since the middle ages but the famous song didn’t come along until much later and may have its origins in western France.
The French version is much more exciting than turtle doves and partridges in pear trees; it includes three joints of beef, seven spitted rabbits, ten full casks of wine and eleven full-breasted maidens.
This 2010 version is 12 days of suggested Christmas tipples but, sadly, does not include any buxom maidens. Next year perhaps …
