Don’t panic, but there are only 25 days until Christmas. While we can’t cook for you, or wrap the presents under your tree, we can help you out with some suggestions for wine accompaniments to the all important Christmas dinner.

Perfect aperitif is a New Zealand Riesling - preferably just off-dry, i.e. just a hint of sweetness. Riesling produces the best white wines in the world, and New Zealand produces some of the most reliable - crisp acidity to offset that gorgeous fruit sweetness is a trademark.
Recommend: Coney Ragtime Riesling

For the turkey, it has to be Pinot Noir, the finest red grape in the world. Pinot works with turkey because of the sweet fruit complementing the dryness of the turkey. Once again, New Zealand is producing wines to rival Burgundy (the home of Pinot Noir), and tend to show more sweet fruit than their French counterparts.
Recommend: Waipara Springs Premo Pinot Noir

And for the dessert course, there’s the just divine Keith Tulloch Botrytis Semillon 2005:

A drink-it-now-or-keep-it-for-a-decade style of wine. The choice is yours. Either way this is a gem, with goose pimple-inducing citrus purity. This wine impresses everyone who tastes it.

In addition to making gorgeous drinking at your dinner table, any of these wines would make top-notch gifts for friends, family and hostess gifts for holiday parties, too. A trio of all three, labled by course, would make an outstanding holiday present, but if you can only bare to part with one, they won’t know what they’re missing.