Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

AS the Christmas countdown enters its final week, let’s combine properly festive jollity with sensible shopping: you don’t have to spend crazy money.

And if you do have a late change of plan or extra guests at the table, in next week’s Christmas Eve edition I’m putting together a last-minute wine list including a store-by-store summary of what wines to look out for.

* SPEAKING of sense, the issue of organics can arouse extreme responses. Some folks make wild claims on behalf of organically-produced wine, up to the suggestion that it’ll leave you hangover-free. (Hardly, as excess alcohol is the cause of that sorry condition). On the other extreme, some people dismiss the notion of organics as expensive juju.