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Wine and turkey day

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Stormdog
Gentleman Stranger
Has anyone ever found a good wine that drinks well with turkey? Seems all of the usual tips for wine and fowl don't work, as I've tried several over the years and each unfailingly ruins the taste of the other. Water or iced tea is the usual fallback, but a nice bottle of wine with a good dinner is always appreciated, especially when you're the dinner guest and would like to bring a couple bottles to your host.
Verbal
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
Hey, Storm! LJ is the wine connoisseur in our family, not me (I'm the bourbon/weed guy). Big shock, I know. She always chooses a pinot noir.

All I know about pinot is this incredible monologue from Sideways. God, I love that movie.

Verbal
Gravelly-Voiced Fucker
An even BETTER monologue from that movie. I'll stop now.
sprite
Her Royal Spriteness
Boone's Farm or Night Train.

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LYFBUZ
Troublemaker
Night Train goes with everything.

Verbal is correct, a pinot noir is a good choice also gamay or a gamay blended with beaujolais. Best choice: Expensive champagne. My recommendation is Cristal.
For wine I'd be looking for red with a berry or fruit overtone, I figure if we serve turkey with cranberries it just makes sense. For the adventurous you may want to try mulled wine, I've never paired with turkey but it just seems like it would work. (You can always experiment with added spices/flavours.)

Or just have a sprite.
Unknown User
Good comments and suggestions.

Here's mine:

Full-bodied Chardonnay - Burgundian style
Pinot Noir - light, fruity
Gamay Beaujolais would also be quite tasty.
Stormdog
Gentleman Stranger
Quote by Verbal
Hey, Storm! LJ is the wine connoisseur in our family, not me (I'm the bourbon/weed guy). Big shock, I know. She always chooses a pinot noir.

All I know about pinot is this incredible monologue from Sideways. God, I love that movie.



Thanks, V, that would be a good one, probably, and I do love Pinot noir. I had the chance to do a modified Sideways trip with my brother, who was the general manager of a famous resort in the Virgin Islands when he was offered a free trip by their wine and beverage supplier to tour a bunch of the top wineries in the Sonoma Valley. I was going to be in San Francisco on business at the time, so I changed my reservations to addd a couple extra days, and we had a blast!

His resort had the best wine cellar in the Caribbean, so they were really buttering him up and I got included by default - and I'm ok with that! Met many of the winery/vinyard owners, sampled their best stuff, got kid glove treatment... I could get used to that! It was also great to reconnect with my brother. We'd been very close when younger, but our lives had moved apart. Very memorable, enjoyable trip!
Magical_felix
Wild at Heart
We always have bubbles with Thanksgiving dinner. Schramsberg blanc de noirs is nice. Won't break the bank.
Stormdog
Gentleman Stranger
Quote by sprite
Boone's Farm or Night Train.


Now you're talking! But I was referring to a Thanksgiving roast turkey, not a cheap date... or even a packaged turkey lunchmeat sandwich.

And ahhh, Boone's Farm and the other glorious screw-top wines. Do they still actually make that swill? I can almost remember, back in the later stages of the previous century, having to pull over to the side of the road so that my date could puke up the better part of a bottle of Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill there in the dirt rather than inside of my '68 Charger. I say 'almost remember' because I was not in much better shape. Fortunately, we didn't kill anyone or get killed, and a cop didn't happen by and stop to see what was going on. Dumb shit you do when you're young, stupid, and indestructible. Now I'm older, still stupid, and somewhat more destructible - or at least more aware of it.

And thanks all, for the great suggestions. I can attest that Merlot was not an especially good choice, nor is a Cabernet, although you'd think they might be due to the berry/fruitiness previously mentioned. Something about the tannins, perhaps. The Pinot Noir suggestion makes me think maybe a Zinfandel would also work, and it's another one I enjoy. I'm fairly partial to red wines, but by no means rule out whites, so I'll experiment a bit. Thanks again!
Magical_felix
Wild at Heart
Quote by Stormdog


The Pinot Noir suggestion makes me think maybe a Zinfandel would also work
RonB1
Active Ink Slinger
Stormdog I have over 300 bottles in my cellar but I will pick up several bottles (different vineyards) of Beaujolais nouveau. Beaujolais nouveau is my first choice every year for Thanksgiving. This wine is known as the Thanksgiving to Easter wine. Perfectly pairs with turkey and all the trimmings. The Beaujolais nouveau only hits the shelves days before Thanksgiving. It is a grape that is bottled and shipped just in time. It is not a wine to age. The cost is very reasonable.
Do not mix it up with Beaujolais Village nouveau which is different (but also nice)