Bottles That Make Good Guests

[lsanderson]

By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: November 11, 2008

SUPPOSE I told you that with your Thanksgiving turkey, your stuffing, your cranberry sauce, and all the delicious side dishes that will grace your holiday table, one wine and one wine only would match up. Unless you pick that one wine you face the specter of horrible embarrassment.

Sound ridiculous? Well, of course it is. Yet more people than I care to think about feel exactly this way when selecting Thanksgiving wines. More

Comments

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

That's why I'll be serving mimosas.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

The last of the Family Thanksgiving meals I attended, twenty-some years ago (my family has pretty much died out) had wine (two, actually) -- for the first time ever, AFAIK. We were midwesterners who just weren't in that pretentious High Social Class that (*ghasp*) Serves Wine With Meals -- even Fancy holiday feasts. (That's the Collective Tradition, of course; individually, some of the family subsets (including me) were pretty darn Pretentious, or Oenophiles.)