For the next three days, InterWined.com is bringing you a new review from its Totally Awesome Christmas Cracker Wine Case, as it counts down the Twelve Wines of Christmas.

The 2005 Domaine Saint Antonin ‘Les Jardins’ ((14.5%), from the South of France, has the sad distinction of being the worst rated of the InterWined’s Twelve Wines of Christmas. But it makes it into its Totally Awesome Christmas Cracker Wine Case (available year round – — hurray!), because it is extremely food friendly.

This can go with pea soup, turkey crown, and even that crazy Christmas pudding that so many old-fashioned Brits like to set on fire before shovelling down their gobs. It is soft and fruity, with very little on the nose.

And, sure, It’s approachable, but some may find it too overripe: 8.2 alone, 8.4 with Christmas vittles or in a mixed case.

Totally Awesome Christmas Cracker Wine Case

2005 Cline Cashmere £12
2003 Frescobaldi Nipozzano Riserva Chianti £12
2005 Finn ‘Off the Leash’ Adelaide Hills £10
2006 Marotti Rubico Lacrima di Morro d’Alba £8.29
2004 Quinta Generación Casa Silva Colchagua Valley Chile £12
2004 Jean-Luc Columbo Les Forots Cotes-du-Rhone £11.49
2005 Katnoon Founder’s Block Coonawarra £9
2003 Ailes de Paloumey Haut-Medoc £9.49
2005 Domaine Saint Antonin ‘Les Jardins’ Faugeres £8.49
2005 Sleeping Dog Lies West Australia Shiraz-Cabernet £8
2005 Parducci Sauvignon Blanc Mendocino £8
2002 The Observatory Swartland £20 [InterWined’s Cellar Secret]

Follow its list and, with the year-round discount, the total should come to around £107. That’s less than £10 per bottle…

Don’t forget to visit tomorrow for review number 10 the 2005 Sleeping Dog Lies Shiraz-Cabernet.

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