With Cold Food and Leftovers

I have tried to suggest ways of making cold meat and salad different and enticing on Boxing Day and through the holiday. But if you are going to take trouble with that, take trouble with the wine too. To drink the same wine you drank on Christmas Day is like serving leftovers.

Try a cold rosé - for instance, you may like the slightly sweet Rosé d’Anjou. Or chill a bottle of red wine - a Beaujolais does well. It tastes quite different from when it is warm - refreshing and brisk-fasting. A Côte du Rhône, with its slightly flinty taste, also goes well with cold meat. If you want a white wine a fresh Vouvray or a light dry white Spanish wine would do well. If your guests do not want to drink anything too heavy add soda water to the Spanish white wine, to make it light and sparkling.