If ever there’s a time for a glass of great wine, it’s Christmas. These unmissable wines as well as ingenious red wine accessories are the ideal Christmas gifts as well as additions to any type of wine-lover’s joyful fun.
Australia has established a genuine enthusiasm for wine, being blessed with so numerous outstanding red wine regions around the country. Our fascination with red wine implies a bottle or two under the Christmas tree just makes sense.
We’ve put together a few of our preferred wines, in addition to a few amazing tools, accessories as well as fun wine-based products that we believe make incredible gifts for Christmas.
So it’s not just a listing of wines here. You’ll discover decanters, red wine preservation systems as well as even ‘decorations’ for the Christmas lunch table here. as well as even some non-alcoholic concepts too.
This is part of our digital guide to Christmas gifts – hint magazine – which you can see here.
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Wine time at Yuletide
1. grant Burge Chardonnay Pinot Noir Sparkling bonbons
Small however completely formed, these 200ml bottles of one of Australia’s finest sparkling wines are a stroke of small genius.
Each one is individually boxed in its own bonbon, so rather than poor jokes as well as garbage dump toys, this year’s Christmas dinner will be full of bubbles!
There’s nothing other than size that separate these bottles from the full-size version from grant Burge.
The conventional blend of Chardonnay as well as Pinot Noir grapes bringing a beautifully balanced sparkling red wine with remarkable bead size as well as elegant body.
$10.00 RRP
2. Pirie Sparkling vintage 2017
Tasmania’s sparking wines are amongst the very best in the world as well as Pirie’s vintage collections are worthy of a seat at this table.
An unsung ‘brother brand’ of Tamar Ridge, these sparkling wines offer amazing body as well as structure together with delightfully fine bead bubbles.
The 2017 vintage provides a crisp apple crunch together with moreish biscuit notes from both the 48% Chardonnay as well as 52% Pinot Noir grapes staying on lees for three years. This bright golden sparkling red wine is the ideal Christmas Day celebration starter.
$50.00 RRP
3. Lyre’s Classico Grande non-alcoholic sparkling
From the creators of one of the very best as well as many diverse non-alcoholic spirits variety in the world comes a whole new method to get the celebration started.
Lyre’s non-alcoholic sparkling has all the bubbles, nose, palate as well as structure of a traditional Champagne, Prosecco or Sekt however none of the ‘I can’t drive house now’. view this area for much more non-alcoholic wines from these men too.
$18.99 RRP
4. Coravin Sparkling red wine preservation system
Have you ever opened a bottle of Champagne, poured out into glasses then put the bottle back in the fridge with a spoon in the top to keep it fizzy? poor news: that doesn’t work.
What does work – as well as will keep your bubbles bubbling for as much as four weeks – is the Coravin Sparkling.
This newest development in red wine preservation systems charges Carbon Dioxide into the space of the champagne bottle with a specially developed cap that locks over any type of sparkling red wine bottle neck. It’s a work of genius!
We put the Coravin Sparkling with a four-week test to see if it truly might keep a bottle of champagne fresh as well as fizzy for a month.
Here’s our evaluation as well as likewise our video of exactly how the Coravin Sparkling performed.
$699.99 RRP
5. Coravin ageless design 6+ red wine preservation system
Perfect for the wine-lover, Coravin is a red wine preservation system that injects inert argon gas with the cork or specially developed screwcaps into the space in the red wine bottle enabling red wine to flow out into your glass without oxygen getting to the rest of the wine.
This enables you to delight in just a single glass of that special bottle you’ve been holding onto as well as still have it in your collection for years. Coravin developer Greg Lambrecht has evidence of red wine long lasting 15 years like this.
You can checked out much more in our evaluation of the Coravin design 6 here.
$649.95 RRP
6. Tamar Ridge Reserve Pinot Noir 2019
Rightfully referring to themselves as Pinot Noir makers very first as well as winemakers second, Tamar Ridge produce a few of the most exceptional iterations of this challenging varietal.
Harnessing all the beauty as well as structure of Pinot Noir, this Tasmanian red wine provides amazing richness, concentrated fruit notes as well as a surface that lasts a lifetime.
Drinking well now, this Tamar Ridge Reserve Pinot Noir 2019 will likewise cellar well for the extremely strong-will for as much as 10 years.
$65.00 RRP
7. Millon Wines’ The Impressionist variety Sensory Experience
Put away the old board games as well as Pictionary aisle, this is exactly how Christmas Day evening ought to be spent. It’s a wine-tasting activity pack that goes method beyond the typical sniff, sip as well as make a note.
Using four wines from their new Impressionist variety (Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Tempranillo as well as Shiraz), family-owned winery Millon Wines have produced a box set of that likewise includes a full sensory experience that takes you to the vineyards of South Australia.
With the wines comes four beautifully created varietal guides that talk about each red wine type, a wine-tasting notepad for determining the flavours, aromas as well as colours of wines, as well as a booklet with a expert wine-taster’s answers against the four bottles in the pack.
The sensory experience likewise includes a specially produced Spotify playlist for every bottle, a tea towel that provides you food pairing recommendations, as well as many impressively a online truth headset with links to 360 degree videos of the Millon vineyard.
$85.00 RRP direct from Millon Wines
Individual bottles of the Impressionist variety are $18.00 RRP.
8. Waterford Crystal Lismore Nouveau decanting carafe
There’s a great deal to be stated for decanting. Not only does it aerate the wine, enabling it to breathe, smooth out tannins as well as awaken those hidden sleeping flavours, it likewise brings genuine beauty as well as theatre at your dinner party.
And when the decanter is as gorgeous as Waterford Crystal’s Lismore Nouveau Decanting Carafe, the red wine is elevated to a whole new level. The stylish cuts in the broad as well as satisfyingly heavy base produce glints of light across the table, while the slender neck makes for smooth, simple pouring.
$389.00 RRP
9. naked Life non-alcoholic spirit RTD cocktails
Ok, not wine, however a fantastic method to surface this list, naked Life is a new Australian alcohol-free spirit variety that’s truly making waves. If you’d likewise like to see our spirits gift guide, click here.
Naked Life’s outstanding (and still growing) variety of ready-to-drink alcohol-free mixed drinks are right here to save Christmas. Crafted with distilled botanicals, de-alcoholised, then mixed with the other elements of each cocktail, these drinks are fantastic representations of their alcoholic namesakes. They’re likewise sugar-free.
There are currently 11 in the range, which you can discover in packs of four in Woolworth’s as well as chosen Coles:
Classic G&T, Wimbledon Spritz, Yuzu Sake, Negroni Spritz, Italian Spritz, Scottish Sour, Margarita, Aussie Cane Spirit (kind of like rum) as well as Cola, American Malt Spirit (kind of like Bourbon), Canadian Rye Spirit with dry as well as Lime, as well as Spiced Caribbean Spirit with dry as well as Lime.
$15.00 RRP x4 250ml cans
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