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Our wine and spirits editor chooses the perfect bottles to gift this holiday season.

Admit it. You’ve regifted bottles of holiday wine and booze. Dashing out the door to a party, you grabbed a gift bag, lined it with festive tissue paper, and deposited the bottle of chardonnay or gin someone gave you at the office party. It’s the mixology version of a passed-along fruitcake. There’s no shame in this; it usually means the bottle wasn’t great. My job is to ensure you never give a bottle that will end up in one of those hastily assembled bags for a merry shindig. Here are 12 exceptional releases to share for the holidays.

“My job is to ensure you never give a bottle that will end up in one of those hastily assembled bags for a merry shindig.” -MICHAEL MCCARTHY