Wine to drink with your Surrey Christmas dinner
PUBLISHED: 20:58 15 December 2010 | UPDATED: 15:38 20 February 2013
Denbies wine to accompany your Christmas dinner
Denbies winemaker Marcus Sharp offers some Surrey Christmas dinner menu-matching wine suggestions
Originally published on Surrey Life online December 2008
Denbies winemaker Marcus Sharp offers some Surrey Christmas dinner menu-matching wine suggestions
The Christmas wine list:
Celebration opener: Denbies Greenfields - bottle fermented in the traditional manner from the three great sparkling grapes, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier.
Starter (smoked trout): Denbies Rose Hill - Waitrose Rose Trophy Winner - delicately fruity, refreshing off dry rose, perfect to drink with fish
Main (Turkey with seasonal veg): Denbies Redlands - a rich smooth red blend, crimson coloured from the Dornfelder grape and characteristically berry flavoured from Pinot Noir
Christmas Cake: Denbies Whitedowns Sparkling wine - a great fizz, crisp, clean and refreshing
Cheese (Norbury Blue): Denbies Ortega - a fine and complex wine with guava and melon characteristics and a subtle aspect of oak
Good all-rounder: Surrey Gold suits most palates and has been the best selling English white wine for many years.
