Wine with Leslie: Alternative Christmas tipples for all budgets

Besides buying us wine as a gift, you can enhance our pleasure remarkably by giving the gift of a good wine glass; we can never have too many.

For the vast majority of us, wine is simply a highly enjoyable thing to have with dinner, one of life’s simple pleasures.

So what do wine lovers want for Christmas? 

Well, in general we would like to be treated as adults and for wine to be categorised as the cultural gastronomic artefact it is, rather than as an evil plaguing society, which seems to be the attitude of Revenue and the Dept. of Health.