Week long eating and drinking = Thanksgiving

Monday Nov 16th, 2009 30 Views Vine to Wine

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran. I have been thinking about traditions around the holidays, today I will recommend some wines to try for what I call the Thanksgiving week celebration.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Of course it has mostly to do with family and secondly with my love of food and wine. When you are selecting wines for the Thanksgiving week you can categorize them into the types of eating and drinking events. Very often your guests are arriving Wednesday night plan on a simple soup and salad night. We love making a sandwich bar and having grills ready for folks to grill their sandwiches to accompany a nice pot of soup. This is a time when basic white Sauvignon Blanc and red wine blends are the ticket. Keep it simple. I don’t necessarily recommend big wines with the big meal. They can get lost and not be appreciated. So maybe the best time to serve them is on Saturday night after Thanksgiving, when you are tired of

Turkey

and ready for something else. Have a meal that is designed around your best wines to showcase them there. One wine that I do like to recommend to serve at just about anytime during the weekend especially with turkey sandwiches on Friday is a low alcohol pear cider. If you have a Sunday brunch it is delicious as an alternative to sparkling wine based drinks. Whatever you do, pay attention to the fact that your wine selections should all have good acid so that they go well with food. To me thanksgiving is the time when food is center stage and the wine is a supporting act. Remember to send your wine questions to Linda at vine to wine dot net and thank you for joining me on today’s Vine to Wine.