Christmas Day: Pol Roger as an aperitif before the Bronze turkey with a bread, fennel, bacon and onion stuffing and petit pois, carrots, Brussels sprouts, roast potatoes, red cabbage cooked with apple and onion, bread sauce and mini-sausages wrapped in streaky bacon.
With the turkey: Bollinger NV for the White-only drinkers, Carruades de Lafite 1999 and La Dame de Montrose 2005 for the others.
The Carruades was bright and quite complex and distinctly better for the 5 plus years from the first bottles of the en primeur case.
The Montrose second was an early bottle of an en primeur case. One of only two 2005 cases for relatively early drinking I bought en primeur in my last such purchase [the other, Chateau de Fonbel] and a good recommendation with some years still ahead.
A lightly chilled [my preference] Taylor's 10 year Tawny Port with the Christmas pudding for some while others preferred the remainder of the Sauternes, La Tour Blanche 2001 from Christmas Day.
Boxing Day with remains from the turkey, Chateaubriand, some charcuterie and the remains of the Christmas cheeseboard.
Whites: Taittinger NV, 2 Muscadets from Domaine de la Pepiere: Clisson 2010 and Chateau-Thebaud, Clos des Morines 2009, Simonnet-Febvre, Chablis, Les Preuses 2009
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Reds: La Petite Eglise, Pomerol 2001, Henri Gouges, NSG, Clos des Porrets 2002, Domaine des Lambrays, Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Les Loups 2005
A beautiful 1997 Conti Constanti Brunello di Montalcino Riserva with veal cutlets.
