Best wines to gift for every budget
If you're out of time and down to the wire with your shopping but still game to make one last run into your regional B.C. Liquor Store with an expanded wine selection, we have some surefire bets to match your budget.
Tried and true, you can depend on these wines to over deliver for the price and be widely accepted by even the most skeptical wine drinker. Buy and wrap, and you're done for the holidays:
$ 10-$ 20
Selbach Riesling (Fish Label) 2018, Mosel, Germany $19.99: Great value and pairs with anything, including the holiday turkey.
Château Pesquié Ventoux Les Terrasses 2018, Rhone Valley, France $18.99: The terraces where the grapes grow yield an easy-sipping red that has all the hallmarks of serious Rhone reds.
$ 20-$ 30
Gérard Bertrand Côte Des Roses Rosé 2018, Languedoc, France $24.95: A Mediterranean gift that smells of strawberries and watermelon sprayed with citrus, but more than anything, it tastes like fun.
Georges Duboeuf Julienas 2018, Beaujolais, Burgundy, France $20.97: Soft, slippery, juicy ... and perfect for holiday celebrations.
$ 30-$ 40
Domaine Zind-humbrecht Gewürztraminer 2018, Alsace, France $38.99: Humbrecht has always had an impressive way of expressing delicacy with a serious tone. Turkey anyone? Descendientes de J. Palacios Pétalos 2017, Bierzo, Castilla-leon, Spain $36.99: Pétalos is all about its old vine mencia, biodynamically farmed. Real wine that invites you to drink the entire bottle.
$ 40-$ 50
Brewer-clifton Santa Rita Hills Chardonnay 2017, Santa Barbara County, Calif., USA $41.99: This wine calls for food in a way most California Chardonnay do not. Delicious styling and ready to drink.
Penfolds Shiraz Kalimna Bin 28 2018, South Australia $49.99: Awash in plummy fruit dappled in brown spice, savoury dried herbs and surprisingly bright acidity with a glossy finish. Delicious.
$ 50-$ 75
Giovanni Rosso Del Commune di Serralunga d'alba Barolo 2014, Piedmont, Italy $69.99: Alluring nose of iron, dried roses and cherries invite you into the glass of wild berries and firm, rich textures. Bottega Gold Prosecco Spumante Brut N/V (in magnum), Treviso, Veneto, Italy $64.99: At 1500ml, this two-bottle magnum of Prosecco is blinged out in gold, looking every bit as impressive as it tastes. Party on.
$ 75-$ 100
Champagne Bollinger Special Cuvée Brut N/V, Champagne, France $75.99: Rich, powerful and loaded with old reserve wines, it's a delicious, deeply concentrated Champagne worth every penny.
Purple Angel by Montes 2016, Valle del Colchagua, Valle del Rapel, Chile $88.99: A super blend of Carmenere and petit that presents rich, warm and glossy with a savoury poultry spice undercurrent.
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Ornellaia Rosso 2015, Bolgheri, Tuscany, Italy $235.99: Long, dense, refined and layered, this is an outstanding Ornellaia and one that will stand the test of time for decades.
Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs 2007, Champagne, France $279.99: Lemon zest, green apples, chalk, minerality, a luxurious creamy mousse; textbook blanc de blancs.