The best bubbles for a perfect Christmas toast

Although the world situation does not seem like the best scenario for a toast, this gesture, so festive, so close, is a moment of reconnection and knowing eyes, in which glasses touch and good wishes emerge. Christmas and toast are the perfect pair to face a new stage surrounded by those we love and who love us. And to realize how lucky we are.

Here’s why, we recommend some toastsaccompanied by bubbles that not only taste heavenly, but will make us smile, which never hurts (even if we have to deal with grumpy relatives and service insiders, who seem like the plague this time of year). With these wines, enjoyment is guaranteed.

BOLLINGER PN AYC 18, A FOREWORD IN A WORLD WITHOUT CONFLICT

It seems like a lot of wishful thinking for a beauty pageant, but in a troubled time where hundreds of thousands of innocent people see their lives turned upside down by wars being fought before their eyes, to have ideals, to think about understanding, is not a trivial wish. And if there is a drink that can be represented in liquid form optimism, this is champagne.

For this toast of ideals, nothing better than a champagne from a great house and a variety like the pinot noir, it can, the most elegant grape in the world. Bollinger has in its catalog this new version of its PN series consisting exclusively of Pinot Noir, with the majority of the wine from the 2018 harvest and a group of reserve wines stored in magnums. It incorporates a portion of wine aged in oak barrels and more than 150 wines are involved in its making: if that’s not an agreement between the parties, we don’t know what is. And as it could not be otherwise, the result is a floral, expressive, delicate and fluid winebut wide in the mouth, stately and elegant. A worthy toast to hope that the conflicts that are rocking the planet can find a peaceful solution and allow the people who suffer from them to go on with their lives in peace.

This champagne can be found on these dates with a champagne bucket created by Cristina Oria, lined in silver and with wooden handles. RRP: €290

TURÓ D’EN MOTA 2009, FOR THE NON-COMPLIANCE THAT HELPED US COME

The year in which the first 25 harvests of this wine were completed, today Corpinnat, which pioneered the commitment sparkling wines from the territoryand in the same year that we said goodbye to Antoni Mata Casanovas, winemaker and member of the second generation of Recaredo who was the one who promoted this way of making, we toast the discrepancyfor that urge that drives us to think outside the box and break taboos, dare and go further.

This wine from Xarel, which exceeds ten years of aging in rhyme is an emblem of creative innovation in Penedès, but also of patience when one knows one is cooking something wonderful. The non-conformity is that, finding a path that may not seem the safest, and dare to discover where it leads. And nothing like enjoying it in the form of freshness-preserving bubbles, in a toasted wine, wide and bulky, delicious and intense; an expected reward for the uncertainty that comes with the long wait of such an extended reproduction. So let’s drink to the mavericks who lead the way. RRP: €150