Christmas is a time for wines that remind us of the small pleasures of home
What better to invoke the festive traditions of internalised resentment and reluctant compromises than a lovely Carricante?
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Nina Caplan
Nina Caplan is the 218 and 214 Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year and the 214 Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year for her columns on drink in the New Statesman, and the author of The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, published by Bloomsbury.
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