Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to star in BBC2’s Oz and Hugh Drink to Christmas
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s Victorian Festival of Christmas will be shown on BBC2 this Christmas, as wine aficionado and all round drinks expert Oz Clarke teams up with Hugh Dennis in a seasonal challenge to sample every Christmas tipple past and present.
The boys embrace the festive spirit as they attempt to uncover the true Christmas credentials behind some of our favourite beverages: from whisky and winter ales in the Highlands to mulled wine at the Victorian Festival of Christmas in Portsmouth, the birthplace of Dickens; from wassail in the West Country to sloe gin in Wiltshire; plus port, sherry and snowballs too. Oz and Hugh explore the weird and wonderful customs that surround some of those drinks and perhaps expose some as complete festive fakes.
And once the jolly is over and the lads sober, they head to the heart of London to dish out liquid gifts to the great British public and to announce which drink deserves to become Britain''s first official Christmas Tipple.
Whilst at the Historic Dockyard, Oz and Hugh visited the various festive attractions before setting up their own stall, where they each made a version of mulled wine that they put to the public for a blind taste test. For the results on who won the challenge you will have to tune into BBC2 this Sunday 20th December at 9pm or again on Christmas Day at 10pm.
Images courtesy of Courtenay Photographic Ltd and the BBC
