Christmas 2025
Advent is here! So here’s my Christmas 2025 card to you all for the festive season. I really hope you like it. For me, the anticipation generated by the Christmas Table is one of the things I particularly enjoy.
Happy Christmas! In other words,
圣诞节快乐
Buon Natale
Joyeux Noël
Feliz Navidad
Frohe Weihnachten
Nollaig Shona
楽しいクリスマスを
Feliz Natal
God Jul
Zelig Kerstfeest
Meri Kirihimete
Веселого Різдва
Eid Milad Majid
A Minor Change of Programme
In a break with a long tradition, I’ve cancelled my usual list of Festive Wine Recommendations for this year.
And before you shout, “Bah, humbug!”, the reason for this is that the bombardment of all kinds of Christmas Listicles started over a month ago. In fact, the first one landed here in September. Now it’s a deluge. So chances are that it’s happened to you as well.
Moreover, they all seem to have been written during the heat of a lazy summer, by AI, or failing that, by autopilot. Their authors clearly haven’t read Christopher Lasch, because they provide “neither delight nor instruction”.1
This year, less is more. Instead, I’ll be adding some seasonal articles about wine and food during December. There will also be the Wine Alchemy Wine of the Year (WOTY) 2025 announced, as usual, on 00:01 GMT on New Year’s Day.
And finally
And for those disappointed not to have some Christmas 2025 Wine recommendations, in placation, might I offer you these links to the Christmas Lists from previous years? 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016.
Or try my Rosé Champagne favourites instead.
Have a Cool Yule.
Notes
1. Christopher Lasch (2002), Plain Style: A Guide to Written English. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 9780812218145.