Caribbean Christmas

What wines for Caribbean Christmas?

Christmas is beautiful, Christmas it's magic, but more important Christmas need to be organized ! The Christmas dinner with the whole family, the old grumpy aunt you see only once in the year and the grandma who kiss you all the time for no reason, it is coming soon. But in order to really take advantages of this exceptional moment with uncle Richard who will tell you bad jokes with a questionable sens of humor, come on don't tell us you don't have of them in your family... Anyway you need to find the appropriate wine for them and for you, of course, to fit the meal and also for the Aperitif. As every year, many bloggers will tackle the madness of wines on the Christmas tables. As a new blogger wanting to attract visitors, we will do exactly the same thing below. You read us for this reason, no? But maybe not only for that and you're totally right, so don't you dare leaving this page and finish this article you won't regret it.. or maybe.

To differentiate ourselves, because we have to differentiate ourselves from our colleagues, we will try our best to advise the wine pairing for our Caribbean friends. Indeed, this isn't because it's hot at their country, they're not celebrating Christmas, we assure you.

To begin with, Marie, our culinary journalist, has scoured for you a hundred exotic recipes to offer you the one that will delight your guests perfectly. Here it is:

Ingredients

- 1 fired ham

- 8 pineapple slices

- 4cl of old rum

For the glazing

- 25cl of orange juice

- 200G of honey

- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon

- ½ teaspoon of pepper

Preparation

Put the oven at 200°C.

In a bowl mix together, the honey, the orange juice, the cinnamon and the pepper.

Remove the ham rind to a thickness of 0,5cm. Put the ham in an oven-proof dish.

Cut the top of the ham. Baste the ham with the mixture prepared previously. Put the 8 pineapple on the top of the ham. Spray with the pineapple syrup and the old rum. Put the dish in the oven during 30min. Don’t forget to spray the ham during the cooking with the juice of the dish.

Well, I think we'll all agree to admit that now we are hungry! But the hard part is still coming ladies and gentlemen. The most delicate moment of the meal's going to happen. The crucial moment, one that everyone dreads and his famous question on which many philosopher have run into trouble ?! Which wine will go with this dish?

Dear Caribbean friends, it is true that you are not very easy to advise with your sweet, spicy and very scooped up dishes. But we accept the challenge!

Here, two wines with an exceptional quality/price ratio, who will marry your Christmas Eve.

The first wine is a sure value of the Languedoc, a flagship of the appellation. So we are trying the shot, without taking too much risk, with LES CREISSES 2015 - DOMAINE DES CREISSES.

It's a wine with a red and black jamy fruits nose. Spicy and leather notes, which promising a good evolution. In the mouth, there is a freshness and gluttony with fruity notes. The tannins are quite melted and structure seduced you by its refinement.

The second wine will fit brilliantly with the recipe of Mary. We recommend this fabulous Côtes-du-Rhone, LA ROSINE 2014 - DOMAINE STEPHANE OGIER. This wine, from 100% Syrah amaze your taste buds.His discreet enough nose is straight, intense and develops pepper spices. The mouth offers a powerful character, always supported by peppers, this very tasty wine affirms from year to year and already expresses today its full force.

Enjoy!

Like used to say W.C Fields “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”