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THE CHINA MATI, HATURDAY," DECEMBER 17,
HOW
T
TO CHOOSE YOUR CHRISTMAS WINES
HERE aro -many
people who
drink
wine every day of their lives. But that
I am writing, attempting to answer. from thirty years' experience of wine buying
to me recently by a young married couple.
By JOHN BAKER WHITE
Day."
with
Woll-known writer on food and wine and author of "Dining Out In London”
cocktail before the
before
cooler,
red wines with others; white Keep the red wine is the room wine with the fish and red wine in which you are going to drink with the meat. That gule la dif- it for 24 hours beforehand, as- ficult to apply to the traditional suming the TODEN temperature is Christmas dinner, so I am going over 60 degrete, and do not is not the common practice question, "Tell us what wines To precode Christmas food, te suggest one of two courses, stand it, in a
Keep the ith a drought, of the great majority of the we ought to have on Christmas I would choose an Amontillado. Choose the colour that you think white wine in the coolest place and the South African peoples of Britain and the
medium and dry sherries are will be most acceptable to your in the house for the sums period. Commonwealth and Empire. Some people may like to start not to be despised. Some are or decide to have red Two hours before you want it, it in a bucket of really It is for this majority that Christmas dinner to create "he Very good. The rich, fuller sher. We will, the hot meal and
white with the cold,
water. And half an hour party spirit" but epirits put up meal, and can be drunk Instead ries go belter at the end of the
With our Chriskais – diante
you open it, add a low the cost. Unless you are an ex- of port.
We shall have Burgundy, and cube of ice to the water, & vin part cocktail maker, the safest
If you want something out with our cold supper in dieser should be treated the same bet is three parts of gin to a of the ordinary, try day evening, on Alsatian while wine, way as a white wine, cham- and drinking, a question put dry while vermouth, ico, and a Madeira before the meal, or If you decide to "push the boat pagne should be made slightly dash of lemon juice well stirred, what used to bo the Navy's cut" and buy a vintage wine, but not too well shuken,
aperitif before they took to gin make a note of the best years
They are:
☆ Good finish dry Marsalą.
Claret; 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, Burgundy: 1047, 1949, 1992. Port forms a very good finish Rhine and Moscile wines: to the Christmas dinner, E 1949, 1952.
pecially if you have bought- something special in the way of cheese, Vintage, porte are often hard to come by, expensive to buy, and
need very gentle treat- ment in decanting. On the other hand there are
are available at reasonable prices plenty lighter but picasant non-vintage port-known as Wood Parts- and some good Empire Tawny port-type wines.
They are spending their first Christmas together. They are entertaining their parents in
their new
home and want to
Personally, I would start with therry; and there are any num ber of branda on the market.
The classifications are Fino and do them well, trut their financial Manzanilla-dry; Amontillado means are limited. So is their meduim dry; and Brown от knowledge of wine. Hence their Cream-full-favoured,
Simple rules
sell
The wine experts will you that white wines should be drunk with certain foods, and
CHRISTMAS FARE OF LONG AGO
STRANGE DISHES OUR FOREFATHERS ENJOYED
"D
worry.
By HAROLD KENNEDY
car-
gaping
itern on
Immortal "Christ-
войст
.
Sauternes: 1947, 1952. White Burgundy:. 1947, 1952. There are of course good, "safe" well-tried wines in the cheaper, non- vintago classes, They are:
Burgundy (red) — Beaujolais, Macon. Santenay. Corton
Pouilly
| Begune, Pommard.
Burgundy (white) - Fuisso. Chablia. Meursault,
Claret-Margnux.
White Bordeaux-Exxtre-deux- Mers. Bar, Sauternes Graves.
✩ Popular
of
The classification of non- vintage parta is Tawny-Light; Ruby Medium Heavy, but full- bodied wines are often sold un- der the name Full Tawny. Old -Bual Madeira is
alternative to, Port...
pleasant
*
Many people will want to finish, their "Christmni dinner But these do not represent with brandy or a liqueur, There the limits of your choice, A aro
expensive very Rhone wine Chateauneuf du brundles of great age to be had,
pna
O have a portion over, near Oxford, carrying a Scrooge bought for the Cratchits
a in Dickens's book of roast
on philosophy when pea- giant tusker rushed at him. The mas Carol”? cock!"
Don't ind kept his hand-fortunately
"There You are not likely for him-and with great pre-
never was such his goose. Bob said he didn't belleva pe has become deservedly but unless you are a catnoisseur, to hear your host say that sence of mind he rammed
popular since the war. So have it would be wire to leave them volume into the boar's there ever was such a
gbosc to you this Christmas, but hefty
the Muscadet wines from the out of the picture. A brandy cooked. Its choking the beast.
and tenderness In the 17th century peacock To celebrate
Loire, South African heck, and with a ten-year-old guarantee his
his flavour, size and cheapness, were the Alsatian and Yugoslav white will escape,
be quite good; was the premier dish on the fellow students held a
Acash
the themes of universal`admira-
wines.
wine better still. Your palate will (Consult your festive tables of the English with the boar's head as the main tion. Ehed out by apple
merchant about
bock
which not be very critical at the end gentry.
the menu, and that and mashed potatoes, it was traditional ceromony survived for sufferent dinner for the whole geeds careful chousing.) There of a large, and, full-flavoured- hundreds of years at Oxford's family....and the youngest some pleasant. Australian meal. People may have had more time in those days to preparo
Queen's College,
Cratchits were steeped in sage burgundies, and Chilean. red
As to liqueurs, there are so and onions to the eyebrows...."wine is good value for menar. the Christmas dinner-they
many on the market it is dif You don't fauty boar's head? tafaly neoded plenty of tune Then, perhaps you would prefer
Pics are still featured on the If you decide on champagne, ficult to give, advice about them, when peacock was on the menu a slice of bear's ham? Ob, yes, Christmas menu-small mince there are any number of sound You cannot go far wrong with
with non-vintage varieties. To drink Kummel, Cointreau, Benedic even that appeared on Christmas pies, not to be comparod The bird had to be completely menus in past ages. Bears were from Borwick to London in 1770, dry, but not a "very dry" Brandy of Baglish or Danish the plo Sir Henry Gray seat with Christmas food, choose a tine, or a good brand of Cherry skinned without harm to its
bear-baiting, 0 brillant plumage, then stuffed imported
popular "sport" at country fairs, for
mamimoch banquet champagne,
manufacture. with sweet herbs and spices: When an animal was retired" Weighing 168 lb. It contained After slow roasting and constant on the arena, it provided very four get for tinkers, as will make all the di evening, we shall have a glass of
temperature
With our cold meal in the basting with rich gravies, the
wild ducks, six peacock was sewn up again in choice meat for the rich mana W
pigeons, Six partridges,
tweference to their favour. Do not Muscadet from the Loire, in Its feathered skin, and placed table, oro wa are told,
rabbits and two ox tongues, to boll your rod wines to death stead of Sherry or a cocktail, on the table with Its gorgeous
gether with all the trimmings, under the hot tag, or freeze the Anden Alsatian Sylvaner with tail spread out in all its glory.
of course. No wonder the dish white in the refrigerator. Unless our food. Later in the evening, had to be fitted with wheels be you are an expert at preparing we shall have a glass of streng to the banqueting hall fore it could be transported in-wine, it is best to keep to the Old Ale--and so to bed.
these vimpic rules,
Often, too, its gilded brak was stuffed with spirit-soaked wool EW people would dream of and set alight, 'm, scrumptioust killing a badger for food
Imagine the preparation neces- sary when, so history tells us,
these days, but the meat of this more than one hundred peacocks animal used to. bo a Christmas
at fichester, dellowcy, Still, were served at Royal banquets,
merset,
a "Badger Fe Today, it would probably be
Henst" 18 dificult to find a hundred pea- Badger, roasted on a spit over
overy Christmas Eve
cocks in the whole of Britain,
in
an oven fire after dark, is Nor, in these days of housing served to guests at the Cow Inn estates and satellite towns, would there with full festive honours, you and wild boars roaming the of course. Knives and forks are English countryside. So you will barred. Tradition rules that the not be asked this Christmas to badger must be torn apart and cat a slice of bear's head. There eaten with the fingers, was ก time, however, before Cromwell banned the "pagan" festive season, when boar's head was a familiar dish on the Christ mas table.
4
BOAR'S head, roasted and
stuffed, gamished with rose mary, decorated with evergrown and served on a glant silver dish, was the place de resistanco of most Christmas banquets, pecially among the wealthy, whe enjoyed this delicacy with due tradition and ceremony.
at Queen's-College, Oxford.
ust
When it comes to rod meat, of us would agree that to beat the there is nothing good old English roast beci, which was all poorer folk could afford in the Middle Ages. Yel it is true to my that one of thể oldest of all Christmas bustoms la "earving the bird”, even, I Dad (through lack of practice) with cannot carve so well or such ceremony as Grandad)
There is hardly a species of bind that has not been eaten at Christings-time. Негода, сарона (cooked in beir: Leathers!) woodcocks, pigeons, ducks, snipes, larks have ended up as Many of the oldest Christmas partridge
Christmas dinners. Even the customs centre around the blive board, though legend has decorated the head. One of the most pictures... que was the boor's head reast says that the mark on the breast of this is Satan's hoof-print, and, therefore, the partridge · should Picture the scene. In the great at bo eulen by true Christians, banqueting hall of the college No such des (thank good- the tables aro leden. with messi) applies to the birds that festivo fore. To the strains of
our twentieth-century tradional carol, a gay and Yuletide tables chickens, ducks, romantic procession arrives from goose and turkeys.
The last the kitchen, with the cook hold- narod fowls, Introduced Inte ing aloft a gleaming silver tray, Britain about 1530, have no on which reposes the decorated connec
connection with the country of and garlanded head of a huge Türkoy, Oh, nol They were wild boar.
found originally in South This traditional rite owod is America. [origin" to something that happen-·
od in mediíneval days." A The googe his been a favourite Queen's undergraduate was Christmas dinner for bundreds strolling in the woods et Shot÷ ̧ of years. Remember the one
The four
snipe,
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