Christmas wine? There is no such thing as the right one. It’s the right one for who you are.
At Christmas, everyone asks: “What wine should we pair with this?”
The question is legitimate, of course.
But it is also incomplete.
Because the real Christmas pairing is not between wine and food, but between wine and person.
Christmas is a strange mirror.
It puts you face to face with who you have been during the year: the rush, the missed breaks, the sudden joys, the fatigue you carry around like a coat that is too heavy.
So tell me: who are you this Christmas?
Are you having a bright year?
Choose a wine that rises, that smiles, that shines.
Bubbles, yes.
Not to celebrate, but to breathe.
Are you having a dense, profound, somewhat introverted year?
Then you need a red that embraces, that doesn’t shout, that knows how to wait.
A wine that doesn’t ask you to explain yourself.
Are you in a year of clarity, of new beginnings, of inner cleansing?
A taut, vertical, essential white.
A wine that makes you feel upright, like when you finally put your life in order.
Christmas wine is not meant to impress others. It should represent you. Because at Christmas, wine does not accompany food.
It accompanies people.
And if you choose the wrong wine, you don’t mess up the pairing… you mess up the conversation.
The right Christmas wine isn’t the right one. It’s the right one for who you’ve become.
This Christmas, I’m not looking for the right wine. I’m looking for a wine that resembles me.
A wine that’s not in a hurry to please, that doesn’t have to prove anything, that knows how to be silent without feeling empty.
A wine that accepts the time it has lived, its lights and shadows, the expectations that have been fulfilled
and those that remain unfulfilled.
This Christmas, if I pour a glass, I do it slowly. As one does with important things.
And as I drink, I don’t think about what will come next, I don’t think about what is missing.
I remain there.
In the sip.
In the moment.
In the time that finally asks for nothing.
Because, after all, the best wine is not the one that surprises you.
It is the one that recognizes you.
And when that happens, there is no need to toast.
Just drink.
#vadovetiportailnaso and Merry Christmas
