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A logical thought process might lead to the conclusion that white wine is the proper choice for Thanksgiving, to wit: Turkey is white meat, therefore you should serve white wine with it, right? Not necessarily. Cacophony is the dominant culinary characteristic on that special day. Yes, there's turkey, but there's also rich dressing and dark gravy and sweet candied yams and buttery mashed potatoes and creamy green bean casserole and tart cranberries, plus salads and Brussels sprouts and rolls and cornbread, followed by several kinds of pies. Yikes!There is good news and bad news in all this from a wine standpoint. The bad news is that the simple white wine with turkey rule won't really work. The good news is that you have no rules. What you do have is a myriad of great choices, and since you'll probably have a crowd, you can mix, match and sample to your heart's content.
At our family feast we serve a wide variety of wines, red, white and in between, brought by different members of the family. We taste while we cook, we taste while we eat, we taste while we digest and we discuss and debate the merits of what we are drinking. That process has become almost as much fun as the feast itself.
Here are some ideas for wines that will complement your Thanksgiving feast. A few of them (marked with an asterisk) are from our previous columns. All, of course, are Great Wine Bargains, which means they are widely available and usually retail for less than $15 a bottle. May you have much to be thankful for this holiday season. Cheers!
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