Prepare for perfect Christmas Day wine

Who has time for mindfulness when it comes to the business of preparing for optimal wine drinking?

The wine lover who prepares for all eventualities will avoid worryistock

The current cult of mindfulness is anathema to us wine lovers. That’s because mindfulness urges you to eliminate thinking about anything that is not happening right now, in order to produce a calmer, less anxious, happier you. Yet, if wine lovers followed that creed, we’d never get wines to the right serving temperature . . . and just try being happy then, as you present your guests with an ice-cold bottle of Bordeaux ...