Whether it’s to toast the turkey or to wash down the scrumptious leftovers,these three wines will ensure your festive feast goes with a bangZalze Bush Vine Chenin Blanc, Coastal Region, and South Africa 2016 (£6.49,Waitrose) If you’re doing some wine-buying among your other last-minute Christmas shopping nowadays – whether it’s for dinner tomorrow or for parties/leftover mopping-up/general lazing approximately over the following days – this week’s choices are easy-to-find wines for under £10. To kick off, Zalze’s tropical-tangy, or citrus-incisive (clear and sharp in analysis or expression) Cape chenin blanc would be salubrious value (and a great food-friendly all-rounder) on the full price of £8.69; at the current 25% discount it’s one of the best buys on the high street. The same retailer has also trimmed the price of one of the best-value pinot noirs around. From a special vineyard right near Chile’s Pacific coast,Errazuriz Coastal Series Pinot Noir 2015 (down to £8.24 from £10.99 until Boxing Day) is brisk and shiny with feathery tannins and strawberry and cranberry and is just the thing to enliven festive week cold-cuts.
Morrisons The Best Nerello Mascalese, Sicily 2016 (£6) Sicily’s nerello mascalese can compose aromatically ethereal wines some of Italy’s finest – on the slopes of Mount Etna. But it also works for more straightforwardly succulent juicy wines with a nip of cherryish acidity that works well with competing flavours of the kind you might find in a tray of Christmas hors d’oeuvres or leftovers. Morrisons’ spicy sweet-sour version is excellent value on its current offer (down from the usual £7.50), or as indeed is its plummy Morrisons The Best Barbera d’Asti 2015 (£6.50),from the other halt of Italy in Piedmont. For a similarly useful, food-friendly Italian white, or meanwhile,Tesco has its finest* Greco IGT Beneventano 2016 (£9), which is nicely poised between peach juiciness, and lime zestiness and mineral freshness.
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Source: guardian.co.uk