Wine, wine…. whine! Christmas Galore by Olga Antoniadou
I’m one of those people that love/hate Christmas. I love the fact that I spend time with friends and family, I love the atmosphere, I love the decorations, I love the lights, I love the cards (I still exchange cards with friends!!), I love the time off, I love the food, I love the sweets, I love the champagnes…..I hate the food, I hate the sweets, I hate the champagnes….. I’m not crazy. Yet, that is. It’s just… I woefully watch my indisputably round ‘figure’ grow rounder and rounder as we go from lunch to dinner, to brunch and over again. And there’s always a feast awaiting, with wine that has been waiting in the cabinet for this very day and which is an utter sin to refuse. And we absolutely enjoy ourselves, and then go home and promise ourselves we will not indulge in treats of the sort again. Full stop. Till tomorrow, usually. Oh dear!
Can you honestly tell me you would refuse a Matarocchio 2011 or a Clos Des Lambrays Grand Cru 2014? An Assyrtiko de Mylos 2014? An Economou Assyrtiko 2012? Let me try and take it from the beginning. My ‘wine friends’, as I call them, because we met when we were taking our WSET courses, are definitely the hardest to refuse, when it comes to tasting wines. We have a kind of informal agreement that I hold a pre-Christmas dinner for the gang. This year we had pre-Christmas, pre-New Years, New Year’s Eve (it gets worse by the year) at my home, a friend’s restaurant and another friend’s home. These dinners were besides the traditional family dinner of Christmas Eve, lunch on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day (sigh!).
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