I’ve been delaying the start of our annual holiday columns to avoid adding to the seasonal rush, but now is the time to get started. Preparation will be crucial this year, given that the wine sector is still recovering from a damaging BCGEU strike that shut down the movement of products for weeks.

If you’re not ready to shop yet, you can save our story on your phone or computer until you are. For faithful subscribers who prefer touching a physical newspaper every day, you can clip this article and stick it on the fridge as an homage to the past, or a curiosity for the visiting grandkids.

Looking back over the wine trends of 2025, most of which were negative, it is hard not to notice consumers’ new-found interest in white wines. As we noted in an earlier column, just about everything made

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