Wine review: Pairing is caring at Christmas time

Tomás Clancy presents his annual guide to the wines that go best with traditional festive dinner dishes

Accommodating every last request is at the heart of our Christmas Day feasting. Picture: Getty

Thirty years ago, my mother’s Christmas dinner table was a thing of diversity and love for all her guests: uncles with weak stomachs, milk-averse work colleagues, people who would get nauseous at the sight of a prawn tail. She accommodated all of these people with a dozen different starters and mains, because she loved them all and wanted them at her table. To me, accommodating every last request is at the heart of our Christmas ...