Wines for Christmas

PUBLISHED: 00:16 20 November 2010 | UPDATED: 18:11 20 February 2013

Wines for Christmas

Jamie MacKenzie-Charrington of Hicks and Don in Gillingham explores what wines work with Christmas foods

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