Unfiltered, Unfined

I’ve often written about the wine lifestyle, where aficionados of the vine integrate wine into all aspects of life. Nowhere is this more important than at meals, when food and wine fortify body and spirit together. While this often means quaffing inexpensive juice with pick-up meals, it also includes the enjoyment of great wines with family and friends. This is the sort of thing that really interests me to the point of wanting to write about it, and several recent such events illustrate my point.

Wine has been with us since the early days of civilization. In some ways wine is a shorthand for culture itself, and it is always a profitable use of time to review the tried-and-true. So I thought I’d put together a list of wines I’ve recently tried that will work with various elements of traditional holiday feasts.