Thanksgiving Food & Wine Pairing Guide
If you read any wine or food publications, you will hear one thing over-and-over “it’s impossible to pick the right wines for Thanksgiving”. This is the yearly gripe that magazines, newspapers, and your crazy Internet winos truck out year after year. While it may quite nice to complain about how difficult it is to pair food & wine, the consumer really should take all the bitching with a grain of salt. Really, does that sommelier really stay up at night trying to figure out how to pair a wine with cranberry sauce? I think not.
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Its no fun complaining when no one is listening, but when millions of people are thinking about wine & food pairings for the first time in months… hell, its fun to complain.
Here is my quick and easy way to pair food & wine: get yourself two bottles: a A $10 bottle of Spanish Grenache and a $10 bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. The reasons behind this are a wee bit complicated (something we cover in our wine foundation program). Remember to drink the Sauvignon Blanc with anything salty (like ham) and the Grenache with anything acidic (like cranberries) or bitter (like roasted turkey or brussel sprouts). Easy, easy, and you get to have two wines instead of one! Woo!
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