{"id":242206,"date":"2025-12-20T04:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242206\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T04:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:42:21","slug":"two-aldi-wines-to-consider-for-christmas-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/242206\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Aldi wines to consider for Christmas \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two French wines from Aldi this week \u2013  if you are still on the hunt for Christmas wines, both of these would do nicely for the big feast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Alsace produces some excellent dry white wines, as well as increasingly good red wines and some fantastic sweet options too. Unlike Germany, most of their riesling is dry, including the wine below. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cairanne is one of the lesser-known wines of the Southern Rh\u00f4ne. Close to more famous names such as Ch\u00e2teauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas, and similar in style, it usually sells at  about half the price. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Louis Weiss Alsace Riesling 2023\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/UFDLLHOZABEMJOAC57E7TLNDFY.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"225\"\/>Louis Weiss Alsace Riesling 2023 Louis Weiss Alsace Riesling 202312.5%, \u20ac9.99<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Lightly floral, medium-bodied, with lime zest and clean green apple fruits finishing dry. Perfect on its own, with Asian dishes, chicken, or most seafood starters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">From Aldi<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Specially Selected Cairanne 2022\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5FA2ZSAMIRDK7IEDKSVXXU4XHI.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"258\"\/>Specially Selected Cairanne 2022 Specially Selected Cairanne 202214.5%, \u20ac11.99 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Rich and powerful, with rounded smooth red fruits and a touch of spice. This would go nicely with turkey and most red meats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">From Aldi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two French wines from Aldi this week \u2013 if you are still on the hunt for Christmas wines,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2189,79,16838,18,19,17,8297],"class_list":{"0":"post-242206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aldi","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-wine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115750066487984738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}