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The holidays are always a great time to
get together and enjoy a wine or two. So,
what do you bring to one of these holiday parties?
Here’s a small sample if wine ideas that
would work for cocktail parties, sit down dinners
or dessert get together.
Beaujolais Nouveau – Beaujolais Nouveau
only comes out one time a year. It gets released
globally every year on the third Thursday of
November. Typically this is one week prior to
Thanksgiving over here in the United States.
Consider this wine the starter red wine for nonred
wine drinkers. It’s a light bodied, very smooth
fruity red wine with light tannins (dryness). With
this wine you can even put a slight chill on it before
serving. Now there is one thing to remember
about this wine. It’s not an aged red wine so
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the chance of trying to keep it for a long period
of time to age it is not a great idea. The rule of
thumb is to drink this wine while still very young
and fresh. So in reality this makes this wine a
perfect holiday gathering wine – inexpensive,
Gewürztraminer – The name
Gewürtztraminer is a little long so if you need to
shorten it you may simply call it Gewurtz (guh-
VURTS). The grape is grown in regions of France,
Germany, the United States and Italy, where it
is thought to have originated. Why is this considered
a holiday wine? Well, this a great wine
to serve with your holiday turkey dishes. The
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