Thinking about what bottles to pick up for Christmas? Here are some suggestions

The dreaded ‘C’ word is fast approaching so if you can be disciplined (or can lock the wine away somewhere) it is good to begin picking up some wines or at least thinking about what you will need.

Champagne is the obvious place to begin, Christmas calls out for it, not just as celebration wine but for how well it goes with seafood and smoked salmon not to mention almost everything else.

At a recent Bollinger Champagne dinner in Les Gourmandises organised by Nicolas and Laura of O’Briens in Douglas I and a lucky group of others got to try out how well Bollinger Champagne goes with some classic French food.