Cru Wines’ Festive Favourites

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS...

LEANNE OLIVIER from Cru Wines encourages you to travel the world with wine, offering some great alternative choices for the festive season...

It's lockdown 2.0 and who knows and The Andes mountains you’ll find Christmas gift is ready to give, and where we’ll be at Christmas? One a wonderful bottle of Undurraga we also have vouchers, gift packs, thing is certain, the nights are Cabernet Franc. Guaranteed to warm tastings and events that would make darker, colder and the fires are on! As you up. a great treat for that someone special we turn to our winter-time creature too. comforts such as slippers, electric With the fire burning, the cheese blankets and roast dinners what board ready and fortified wines Explore Cru Wines Emporium and should we be drinking? on your mind, transport yourself Tasting Room at 4 Silver Street, to California and explore a glass of Bradford on Avon, BA15 1JX, or visit

There will always be the typical Starboard 88 a fortified wine with our online shop. classics. However, after a year of luscious ripe blackberry, raisin and limited travel and exploration, why chocolate truffle flavours. Delicious! • cruwines.co.uk not travel the world with wine this winter and try something different? And if these wines sound perfect, chances are someone you know "We hand wrap and bag our bottles so your

For those who enjoy crisp, dry, might also like them! We hand wrap perfect Christmas gift aromatic Sauvignon Blancs, travel and bag our bottles so your perfect is ready to give" to Macedonia to try a bottle of

Tikves Smederevka. Smederevka is an indigenous grape that is similar in style to Sauvignon Blanc; a pale lemon wine delivering tropical and stone fruit aromas underpinned by a streak of zesty citrus. A perfectly balanced easy sip! If you prefer a rounder, heavier white for food, how about a wine tour of the gorgeous South Africa? Oaked in huge 50 litre oak barrels for a year, the Babylonstoren Chardonnay has a beautiful round buttery note, or the Olifantsberg Grenache Blanc is a richly textured wine that’s a real treat!

A very quaffable fruity red can be found by popping over to Sicily for a bottle of Vitese Nero d'Avola with rich, juicy flavours of ripe plum and black cherries interlaced with subtle violet notes? And for a heavier red, that deserves decanting & pondering over simply catch a flight to Central Chile where halfway between the coastline