Merry Christmas !

Dear Show Wine readers,

We bet you were waiting for this day all year long !

Christmas here we are !

Best time to enjoy meeting with your family and friends.

In order to make the most of it, we have decided to share our Christmas wine experiences:

- Adeline is back home in Brittany, in her family's, and has decided to do wine & food pairing only with wines coming from out of France. One of them, which has been drunk with caramel roast pork, is a Californian Wine. This is an "Old vine Zinfandel", vintage 2008, from Pepperwood Grove estate.

Thanks to this wine with cocoa, caramel and vanilla tastes, the association was perfect!

Adeline and the "Old vine Zinfandel"

- In Marie-Lou's family,  the long wine tradition and the sympathic cellar of the family house permit to choose the perfect wine to match with seafood plate : a white wine from Burgundy (Meursault), eleven years old, with vanilla, buttered and toasted aromas, and a very beautiful gold color. Her Grandma, connoisseur in wine, advices to decant it and it was the best way to taste this Saint Romain 2000.

- Marie is back home in Montauban...! Guys my family lovvveess traditions but we're not very good at it. My mum tried to cook a turkey with some apples and peers. Thanks god we were too drunk to complain about it. Anyway, the meat was amazing and we decided to go for Burgundy as well. My stepdad (told you... Not traditional) is from Dijon so we had a Beaune 1er cru 1996. Amazing aromas of strawberries and raspberries! Guy that's what I call a nice caudalie! 

- Pierre-Adrien come back to his native region in Saumur in the heart of the Loire Valley. Program for Christmas dinner: Seafood, foie gras, salmon, capon and Loire wines of course!

The best of them was certainly "Clos Rougeard 2005". A sublime Saumur-Champigny with a purple dress, some spicy and fruity aromas marked by a wonderful year!

 

We wish you a Merry Christmas!