Two Wines You Should Try This Thanksgiving
What do you want from a wine for your Thanksgiving dinner? It should be approachable, easy on the palette. It should pair well with turkey and all your fixings. It should be cheap, but not taste like it. Even if you’re not a wine aficionado, you want something that at least won’t be noticed. At best, it brings the whole meal together.
Of course there are the standbys: Pinot Noir, Merlot, and Chardonnay. But here are some wines you might not have considered:
Your Red Wine:
Beaujolais Nouveau: This wine is bottled on Nov 3 and shipped worldwide from France. It’s a young wine and exceptionally drinkable. It’s light, fruity, and best served chilled. The grapes are grown in the Beaujolais area (part of Burgundy) and because of its annual release, it’s always closely associated with the holidays.
Your White Wine:
Riesling: This wine originated in Germany but you can find varieties from Alsace, Austria and so on. It can range from very sweet (almost a dessert wine) to very dry, depending on the variety. Riesling works well for Thanksgiving, the sweetness makes everything taste more moist– even the driest of turkeys. If hearing the word “sweet” and “wine” makes you cringe, you can get a Riesling on any end of the scale (look on the label for dry or “trocken” for dry or “Auslese” for sweet).
These are two I recommend, but I’d love to hear from you. What wines are you drinking this holiday season?
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