Give a decent bottle of wine as a present this Christmas

The key to successful present buying I believe is to find something that the recipient wants, but which it did not occur to them to buy for themselves.

Choosing books, clothes, jewellery or perfume using this criteria is never easy, but I firmly believe that you will rarely go wrong with a decent bottle of wine whatever the price range.

If you have no idea of a person’s preferences stick to red wine for men and white wine for women and I would tend towards the old world rather than the new if the recipient is over 40 (Sancerre or Bordeaux).