The festive season of 2023 is fast approaching... It's the perfect time to toast the season with a festive meal, before exchanging long-awaited gifts.
In fact, here's a good idea for a Christmas gift: a good bottle to give or to have given. So, champagne, red wine, white wine, crémant, sparkling wine , and why not a non-alcoholic beverage so as not to overindulge?
To make sure you don't go overboard, take a look below at these great bottles to give as gifts or to open on the big day, so you can share them with everyone for Christmas 2023 or New Year ' s Eve!
Boizel x Toqué Frères champagne
It's become a habit. Every year, Boizel collaborates with artists from various horizons to illustrate its festive cuvée. For this latest and 23rd (!) collaboration, Boizel has teamed up with artist brothers Toqué Frères to dress up its Brut Réserve cuvée. Just the thing to add a little pop to your life!
Price: €58
Le Grand Blanc de Blancs de Jeeper
With its voluptuous, transparent curves, Jeeper's extra brut Grand Blanc de Blancs is the perfect cuvée. Produced without sulfites and aged for 6 years in oak barrels, its golden color reveals great finesse and balance on the palate.
Price: €120
Flamme Brut Blanc magnum from Gratien & Meyer
Gratien & Meyer understands that to please guests in these complicated times, there's nothing like a 1.5-liter magnum of crémant at a small price. Bingo, its Flamme Blanche cuvée, aged for three years, can be enjoyed in large format at an affordable price, to toast the whole table.
Price: €22.95
Mionetto prosecco
To make a perfect Spritz and please your guests, whether Italian or not, there's nothing like a good prosecco. At Mionetto, quality goes hand in hand with affordability, with this limited-edition prosecco in a suit of lights, accompanied by 2 Christmas candles for your festive table.
Price: €19.90
Freixenet's glittery cuvées
The Barcelona-based house dresses up its Cuvée Rose and Cuvée Cordon Negro Brut with a thousand and one sequins, to set your festive table ablaze. The real plus? There's no need to splash out on these two sparkling bottles!
Price: €10.90
Jaillance x Maison de la Porcelaine boxed set
There's plenty to eat and drink (or almost!) in Jaillance's Christmas boxed set: on the one hand, its traditional Clairette de Die Brut, and on the other, a pretty porcelain plate from Maison de la Porcelaine, for arranging petits fours. So practical!
Price: €35.90
Moderato's alcohol-free wines
Alcohol-free and low in calories, Moderato's revolutionary wines are the ideal option for those who don't drink alcohol. While the white wine was a little less convincing, the red wine expresses the flavors of a traditional red wine. Of course, don't expect a tannic or full-bodied wine, but rather a light, fairly fruity alcohol-free wine made in collaboration with French winemakers.
Price: €14.90
Premius Bordeaux and its silk scarf
For wine and fashion lovers, Premius dresses up its Bordeaux for the holidays in the most beautiful way, with a gold and black silk scarf designed by Bordeaux illustrator Marie-Eva Peltier. Wrap it around your loved one's neck and toast the occasion in unison!
Price: €39
Le Zouave 2021, Domaine Jean Esprit
Some bottles are unforgettable, some from the outside, others from the inside. With its cuvée Le Zouave 2021, Domaine Jean Esprit has produced a Crozes-Hermitage that succeeds on both counts, with a beautiful bottle label and an easy-drinking red wine with discreet cocoa notes.
Price: €36
Cuvée Escudo Rojo Gran Reserva 2022
Did you know that Chile has the ideal climate and terroir for growing the emblematic Bordeaux grape varieties? A successful marriage at the heart of Escudo Rojo Gran Reserva 2022, made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Carménère, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Syrah. Between roundness and elegance, a wine with notes of red fruit, perfect with lamb or duck.
Price: €19.90
Christmas beer from Jenlain
For its traditional Christmas beer, the Jenlain brewery, a mainstay of breweries in Northern France, unveils a limited-edition box containing two tasting glasses alongside its amber beer with gingerbread accents. With a new mascot this year: a marmot!
Price: €16.90
Duvel beer Magritte edition
We end this selection with a magnificent large-format beer bottle that pays tribute to the most famous of Belgian surrealist painters: Magritte! A blond beer with controlled bitterness that sends you... into the clouds!
Price: €29
Merry Christmas to all!
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