Do you also take pride in serving the best to your guests - or have you been tasked with providing wine this year and are completely clueless? Whether you are choosing wine for duck or roast pork, we have a little guide here to help you on the right track when choosing wine for your Christmas dinner.

At the bottom of the article, there are links to the different wines we recommend. The challenge in finding wine for roast pork and duck is the accompaniments, which often consist of sweet and sour things like red cabbage and browned potatoes; here, the lighter wines will be lost and their fine, nuanced flavors will be drowned in the hearty and rich flavors of the Christmas table.

We bring you a small guide where you will get tips on choosing the best red wine for roast duck - they can easily be used for roast pork too, but we also have a few alternative suggestions in this category. And finally, you will get our recommendation for the perfect ending with a good wine for the Risalamanden.

Amarone is a classic northern Italian wine, the most distinctive feature of which is that the grapes are dried for up to 6 weeks before being pressed into wine. During this process, they lose about half of their liquid content, leaving behind a grape that resembles a wrinkled raisin, and has plenty of sweetness and fullness in the taste.

This is also one of the reasons why Amarone is an expensive wine. An Amarone is usually over 15% alcohol, the taste is full-bodied, there is plenty of sweetness and if you choose the right one, also a bit of acidity which is important for the accompaniment of roast duck.

In terms of price, good Amarone will usually cost from 200 kroner and up - don't be misled by the supermarkets' offers of 'Amarone' for 99 kroner, at that price it is very difficult to find good Amarone.

If Amarone becomes too much - for both the palate and the wallet - you can fortunately find other wines that contain many of the same qualities; for example Ripasso or Appasimento.

Ripasso is a type of wine where the must that will later become wine is allowed to lie together with the bunched grapes from the Amarone wine (the dried grapes from before). In a wine of the Appasimento type, half of the grapes are dried in the same way as in an Amarone - the other half are fresh grapes, as in regular wine production.

In both Ripasso and Appasimento, you get much of the Amarone character, while the price is a little more reasonable. But once you've fallen in love with Amarone, there's no way around the real thing.

If you're not that into Amarone, or it's time to try something else, here are some alternatives: Another wine for Christmas could be from the Rhône area where the Grenache grape is often dominant, where there isn't that much sweetness, but instead lots of body, fruit and acidity.

You can't go wrong with a Chateauneuf-du-Pape, but there are many other - more affordable - alternatives that are all good red wines for roast duck. Another obvious choice for a real "duck wine" is the Californian Zinfandel - Zinfandel from California is characterized by being real rumblers; lots of alcohol, fruit and body - and preferably a bit of sweetness - exactly the characteristics we look for when we are looking for a wine for roast duck.

Should you consider other wines for roast duck, here are a number of examples of grapes that will pair well with duck and traditional accompaniments:

• Argentinian Malbec - black as ink with lots of alcohol and body.
• Finally, Spanish wine made from the Tempranillo grape has a lot in common with the aforementioned wines; the fruit is prominent and they are often quite full-bodied wines.

Wine for roast pork