The holidays are a great time to bring family together over a great meal, conversation, and great wine.
It can be overwhelming choosing a wine for your gathering since people’s wine palettes change with age and experience. Luckily, the holidays are a great time to allow your guests a little freedom in their wine choices. A more flavorful red can often be paired with a sweeter white or rose to bring the whole family together around the dinner table, so feel free to offer a selection.
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We’ve all tasted sparkling wine, at the very least around the holidays or when celebrating a special occasion: Champagne has become the drink of special occasions and Christmas, a status symbol in a delicate flute, yet Americans still don’t know much about it, which means we don’t really know how to drink it either. The French still consume more than half of the Champagne produced. And though the U.S. is the second biggest export market behind the United Kingdom, according to the U.S.-base...