Many people have trouble selecting fine wine for Christmas and New Year parties. Depending on the available foods, you can consider matching delicate food with a light wine and rich foods with bolder wine. If you have the celebrations far from home, note that a DUI can ruin your Christmas, so get a driver or avoid drinking wine if you will be driving. Otherwise, consider these six types of wines that can add a wow factor to your New Year celebrations.
Beaujolais Villages
With the goodness of strawberry, raspberry, and some zesty accents, this light-bodied red wine blends well with most types of meat. You can enjoy this tasty wine with chicken, turkey, fish, bacon, or sushi among others. Before buying wine, you may wish to so through a wine-buying guide to factor in other considerations as well.
Blindfold White Blend
This selection has a deep white color and comes in apricot, butterscotch, and citrus flavors. It is made from a fusion of chenin blanc, roussanne, chardonnay, viognier, vermentino, and muscat. It is an ideal choice if you are serving creamy dishes like cheese at your party. Before serving your guests, however, learn the fundamentals of presenting wine.
Brunello Di Montalcino
Made exclusively from Sangiovese grapes, Brunello Di Montalcino is a slightly spicy, acidic red wine made in Italy. It is recommended that you match it with solid delicacies that match its potent flavor. Such meals include cheese, meats, herbs, and spices. There are lots of fantastic facts you need to know about this wine.
Riesling
Riesling is often characterized by its intense aroma of orchard fruits such as pear, apricot, nectarine, and honey crisp apple. It can be dry or sweet and comes in lanolin, diesel, and petrol flavors. Due to its acidity and sweetness, it blends well with spicy food. It also goes well with shrimp, crab, pork, duck, chicken, and bacon.
Gewurztraminer
It is considered more adult due to its unique aroma, low acidity, and higher alcohol content. It is more difficult to consume and comes in orange, pineapple, peach, lychee, apricot, grapefruit, and cantaloupe flavors. Gewurztraminer is best enjoyed with roasted meats, nuts, cheese, vegetables, herbs, and dried fruits.
Lambrusco
This one is a light and bubbly wine that is delivered in reddish hues. Its shades range from pretty pink to deep red. There are over sixty varieties of lambrusco grapes, but the most common are grasparossa, maestri, marani, montericco, salamino, and di sorbara. The wine comes as a blend of various grapes, each with a unique flavor. It has a low alcohol content and is best paired with meaty foods such as BBQ ribs, and it also goes well with other meats such as pork and beef. You may wish to view at a detailed guide on pairing Lambrusco and food.
If you are planning a holiday party, you will want to serve your guests great wine; and if you are attending a celebration, it's always thoughtful to carry a bottle of wine with you. Wines bring out the best flavors of various meals. Hopefully, the above wines will make it to your celebrations, and the guests will be wowed.
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