Ponitz graduation 2012
Cars and Parts Swap Meet
2012 senior class photos
Home > Blogs > Uncorked > Archives > 2005 > November > 22
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Best Wines for Thanksgiving Dinner
I launched the Dayton Daily News “Taste of Wine” column wayyyyy back in 1989 (I was 12 at the time) with a column on … Thanksgiving wines.
The advice has remained constant in the 16 years since: Keep it simple!
This is a dinner that can be a nightmare to find wines that complement all of the competing flavors that go into a traditional Thanksgiving meal. There’s no wine on earth that will …
… pair perfectly with roast turkey, savory gravy, apple-and-sausage stuffing, oyster stew, cranberries and marshmallow-laden candied yams. Plus, chances are you’ll have some once-or-twice-a-year wine drinkers at the table whose tastes don’t run in the same rarified circles as us wine geeks.
Rather than send folks scurrying around town to find specific recommendations, I suggest you look for crowd-pleasing, easy drinking varietals and buy what’s convenient — although I invite those of you in the retail end of the wine business to make specific suggestions as a comment to this posting. That would include rieslings from Washington State, Germany, California or Ohio. These are wines that generally have some sweetness to them and have the added benefit — to family peace, anyway — of low alcohol content. On the red side, pinot noir or gamay from California, Oregon or France would be a safe, popular choice.
Smooth and easy and crowd-pleasing, that’s my mantra when it comes to Thanksgiving wines. What do you think? Got any specific recommendations or general advice? Post a comment!
If, perchance, you read Wednesday morning’s Taste of Wine column in the Dayton Daily News and are looking for the recaps and reader reviews of either the Dorothy Lane Market holiday food and wine tasting or Arrow Wine & Spirits holiday tasting, just click on the store-name links and go straight to ‘em!
Cheers, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Mark Fisher
TweetGo to my facebook page and click Like to comment.
