Wine to drink with your Surrey Christmas dinner

Denbies wine to accompany your Christmas dinner

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.