Sainsbury will be stocking its popular Christmas wine duo again, after two years of strong sales for the products.
The Christmas Red and Christmas White wines, by wine producer and importer Boutinot, will be £6 a bottle.
Both are Vin de Pays French wines, offered as either Merlot or Chardonnay, and are packaged in eye-catching sleeved silver festive bottles.
Lee Middleton, Boutinot’s trade and marketing manager, said: “The decorative design makes it a useful addition to the Christmas table and the sleeving process allows us to almost gift wrap the bottle.”
The range was originally launched in 2003 and sales have doubled since the launch, said Boutinot. Sainsbury has already taken half the total production for the year.
“We identified an opportunity for a wine that could truly cross into the Christmas gifting category, which has seen significant growth over the past five years,” said Middleton.
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