Christmas Dinner With Wine

Christmas day is a very special day, and for wine lovers particularly so!

Join us as we enjoy a three-course Christmas meal at St Vincent and taste our way through a “Perfect Christmas Day for Wine Lovers”.

For our aperitifs, we start of course with Champagne.  There is nothing to beat Champagne with a Christmas day breakfast of smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

Moving on we then sample a pre-dinner glass of Fino Sherry.  Despite its image as a drink for your grandmother, a traditional bone-dry Fino sherry is a lovely aperitif, served with a few nuts.

Then onto Christmas dinner itself.  Of course, what wine you choose does depend on what you're going to eat, but we cover some of the best matches and safest selections.

For our starter, supplied by the St Vincent kitchen we will enjoy a glass of Premier Cru Chablis.

For our main course (traditional roast turkey or alternatives) we have two of my favourite styles of red wine a Red Burgundy (Pinot Noir) and a Claret (Red Bordeaux) from the Haut Medoc.

We will also discuss options for other Christmas lunch combinations, so whether you're a traditionalist, an experimentalist or a vegetarian there will be a recommendation for a suitable Christmas wine.

For your Christmas pudding (or alterantive) we will sample another Sherry.  However, nothing could be so different as the lusciously sweet Pedro Ximenez (PX). This jet black, wonderfully concentrated sherry has been described as "Christmas Pudding in a glass".

Finally (if anyone is still hungry!) we finish off with a glass of Port and some blue cheese.

The St Vincent Christmas menu can be found here.  You will be contacted shortky before the event to make your choices.

This is a very informal event.  Minimal presentation as I will be sitting with you to discuss the wine and enjoying the meal.

This event makes a wonderful way of getting into the Christmas mood, book early to avoid disappointment.