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Princeton Alumni Virtual Tasting - Celebratory & Holiday Wines

 

 

Featuring Fantastic Celebratory & Holiday Wines

 

 

 

Tasting Date & Discount Info

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Thank you for joining our virtual wine tasting! It's wonderful to have you. Saturday, December 4th at 6:00PM, we will be tasting through some of our select wines for the holidays. Your guide will be our knowledgeable associate, Sebastian.

 

Also, we would like to offer you a special promotional code that will take 15% off 12 or more bottles of wine (some exclusions apply). Use code "PA3" during checkout.

 

For Free Local Delivery within the Princeton Area, please enter "FREESHIP" during checkout.

 

 

Tasting Summery

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Picking your Holiday wines this season this year may be challenging as we are still facing pandemic times and gatherings will be limited to small crowds.

 

We imagine most people’s Holiday celebrations to be long meals that may begin with snacks and noshes, extend through appetizers and main courses and end, perhaps hours later, with desserts.

 

The liveliness that comes with good acidity is in effect a survival strategy. Such wines will rejuvenate, even as all that food pushes you toward a comatose state.

 

The French naturally have a term for this characteristic in wines, ‘digestibilité’, wines that are delicious and easy to drink without being freighted with excess or weighing too heavily in the gut. 

 

Speaking of embracing ‘food friendly’ wines, here are some key factors that will help you find the right style of wine regarding price and exclusivity.

 

• Look for light tannic wines. Tannins are not necessarily bad, but over the long haul of a holiday feast the astringency that comes with them can be fatiguing. 

 

• Avoid wines with too much oak.  Overt oak flavors can clash with many foods, and oak tannins can be more obtrusive than grape tannins. Oakiness can appear in many different sorts of wines. 

 

• Look for wines that are not too High in alcohol . It’s a long day — the higher the alcohol, the quicker the trip to the couch. You can easily find high-alcohol wines that taste good. But this isn’t the day for them. How can you tell? Abv % is right on the label.

 

. Lean to crowd-pleaser wines. Thanksgiving is a time for making people happy, not for persuading them to drink avant-garde styles that you love but that may bewilder mainstream drinkers. You don’t have to sacrifice principles or suppress your own tastes, just look for styles that can be easily understood by most people.

 

 

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