The holiday season is the perfect time of the year to reward your wine-loving friends, family members, and colleagues with a bottle chosen specially for them. We’ve taken personality types into consideration, thrown in a special birth year or anniversary bottling, and have come up with these seven special choices for holiday gifting. One of the best things about a well-chosen bottle is that it delivers twice: once when it is first unwrapped and again when the cork is popped and the wine is tasted.
For many of us, when the dessert menu comes, the selection of wines is glossed over, but there others who love a sweeter glass. This transformative wine is made in the tradition of a tawny port, but instead of blending aged wines from multiple years, it is crafted only from grapes harvested in 1975. Dark tea colored in the glass, it has enticing aromas of toasted hazelnuts, butterscotch, dried apricot, mint, and tobacco leaf. Its sweetness is perfectly balanced by bright acidity to showcase flavors of holiday baking spices, English toffee, and dried fruits. Bottled in a frosted glass flask and presented in an elegant wooden case, it’s a gift they’ll remember for a long time.
Excerpt Taken From: Robb Report
Author: Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen
