Pre-launch Festive 4-Pack

Including two still wines to perfectly complement a turkey dinner and two sparkling wines suited to planned and impromptu holiday entertaining, let us help make your festive preparations a little easier.  2025's Festive 4-Pack includes:

Tapanappa Tiers Vineyard Chardonnay 2023, Piccadilly Valley, South Australia

At the Edinburgh trade tasting for Matthew Jukes’ 100 Best Australian Wines 2025 earlier in the year, the strongest varietal offering was the Chardonnay flight, and this was the standout wine of the flight. Winemaker Brian Croser, a legendary figure in Australian winemaking circles, has turned the cool 2023 vintage to sublime effect and produced a Chardonnay of finesse and intensity. You would have to spend a lot – and I mean a lot – of money to get a white Burgundy of this quality.

Fürst Bürgstadter Berg Spätburgunder 1G 2022, Franken, Germany

Germany is the third-largest producer of Pinot Noir (or Spätburgunder) in the world, and Weingut Fürst is regarded by many critics as the top producer of Pinot Noir in Germany. Winemaker Sebastian Fürst describes 2022 as ‘a very special year, when quality actually fell into our laps’, and critic Stephan Reinhardt agrees, calling Fürst’s line-up of reds ‘the finest and best I have tasted in Germany in 25 years’. Bürgstadter Berg is an Erste Lage (premier cru), and the grapes for the 2022 come from plots within the Hunsrück and Centgrafenberg Grosse Lagen (grand crus); it represents incredible value in comparison to the considerably more expensive grand-cru bottlings from those vineyards. This is Pinot magic: generous and yet delicate, intense and yet elegant. I was proud to have this wine on the Reserve List at Fhior and I’m proud to offer it here.

Langham Corallian Classic Cuvée NV, Dorset, UK

I first tasted the Langham sparkling wines from Dorset at a tasting alongside a number of sparkling wines by more established English producers and some decent Champagne producers, and the entire Langham line-up impressed me as over-delivering for the price. I was particularly fond of Corallian, which is their Chardonnay-dominant NV cuvée, and which took the trophy for Best Classic Cuvée NV/MV at the 2024 Wine GB awards. Though this is aged for just 18 months on the lees, partial oak-ageing of the base wines and a well-considered addition of reserve wines gives this a nutty, biscuity complexity that will please even discriminate palates at festive get-togethers.

Saracco Moscato d'Asti 2024, Piedmont, Italy

At Fhior, I liked to use Moscato d'Asti or Brachetto d'Acqui as pairing wines for the pre-dessert to contrast with the richer dessert wines that I paired with the desserts that followed, so I tried a lot of these wines. And then I tried Saracco, and I didn't need to try any others. Paolo Saracco is known in Italy as 'Il Maestro del Moscato', with one vintage of his Moscato d'Asti even having been chosen by wine critic Ian D'Agata as his top Italian sparkling wine of the year. This vintage maintains Paolo's high standard and was number 3 in Wine Enthusiast's Top 100 Best Buys for 2025. This is bottled happiness - sweet, pure, effervescent, and only 6% ABV. Pop this with some panettone for a festive treat!