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What are you pouring for Thanksgiving?
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:54 am
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:54 am
Thanksgiving is my favorite day of the year, and being a wine geek I love selecting the wines to go with dinner.
This year my wife and I are having four adults and four small children as guests. So I need enough wine for 6 adults. I think 3 bottles should be enough. These are people who know a good wine when they taste one, but aren't what you'd call connoisseurs. So while I want to serve good wines, I'm not going to break out my best bottles. Here's what I have selected (2 reds and 1 white):
2015 Ojai Vineyard ‘Kick On Vineyard’ Riesling
2014 Lea ‘Santa Rita Hills’ Pinot Noir
2015 Kivelstadt ‘Father's Watch’ (Rhone-style red blend)
After our guests are gone, assuming those bottles are empty, I plan on opening a 2013 Jonata “Todos” (red blend)
So how about you? What will you be serving?
This year my wife and I are having four adults and four small children as guests. So I need enough wine for 6 adults. I think 3 bottles should be enough. These are people who know a good wine when they taste one, but aren't what you'd call connoisseurs. So while I want to serve good wines, I'm not going to break out my best bottles. Here's what I have selected (2 reds and 1 white):
2015 Ojai Vineyard ‘Kick On Vineyard’ Riesling
2014 Lea ‘Santa Rita Hills’ Pinot Noir
2015 Kivelstadt ‘Father's Watch’ (Rhone-style red blend)
After our guests are gone, assuming those bottles are empty, I plan on opening a 2013 Jonata “Todos” (red blend)
So how about you? What will you be serving?
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Posted on 11/10/17 at 12:00 pm to L.A.
My niece’s 2nd birthday is thanksgiving and we will be in Disney so I am lucky to find a miller light.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 12:04 pm to L.A.
Giblet Gravy
Posted on 11/10/17 at 12:06 pm to bigberg2000
Posted on 11/10/17 at 12:08 pm to L.A.
I'll be at the cowgirl game so plenty of bud lights.
Saturday we'll eat turkey with friends and pour most likely some Michael David stuff, lamarca, and plenty of whiskey.
Saturday we'll eat turkey with friends and pour most likely some Michael David stuff, lamarca, and plenty of whiskey.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 12:12 pm to TH03
quote:I'm a BIG fan of their wines. I've been buying lots of the 2014 7 Deadly Zins lately. Can't beat it for the price.
some Michael David stuff
Posted on 11/10/17 at 12:15 pm to L.A.
Best zin under $20 on the market. Their higher tier zins are great too. It's the 7 deadly line: rage, sloth, gluttony, and greed so far. Love their stuff and they have an awesome winery as well.
The 7 deadly red blend they just came out with is great too.
The 7 deadly red blend they just came out with is great too.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 12:25 pm to TH03
Posted on 11/10/17 at 2:03 pm to TH03
quote:I bought a bottle of that a couple of weeks ago but haven't opened it yet. Looking forward to it. They also do a Syrah called 6th Sense that is always good, and their Petite Petit blend is one of my faves each year.
The 7 deadly red blend they just came out with is great too.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:23 pm to L.A.
I will pour something good and expensive for myself on Thanksgiving night. As for the 20+ people I will have over for lunch, they will get Beaujolais Nuveau. Sorry to sound like Scrooge, but that is what that stuff is for. Edit to add a smiley face although I am not really joking.
Edit to add a smiley face although I am not really joking. This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:43 pm to geauxpurple
quote:I totally get it. Some years back I broke out one of my best bottles on Thanksgiving Day and after we had finished eating two people got up from the table with their wine glasses still half full. They were just going to leave them there to be dumped down the drain. I wanted to cry.
Edit to add a smiley face although I am not really joking
Posted on 11/10/17 at 5:45 pm to bigberg2000
quote:
My niece’s 2nd birthday is thanksgiving and we will be in Disney so I am lucky to find a miller light.
Yikes. Good luck buddy. That sounds like my nightmare.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 8:07 pm to AbitaFan08
I just got back from Oregon this summer and all of my Pinot I ordered was delivered this week. More than likely popping some of it over the holidays.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 9:08 pm to L.A.
quote:
So how about you? What will you be serving?
Not wine, that’s for damn sure.
Unfortunately, my birthday is on Thanksgiving Day. So I’ll have to spend it with my parents who will want to open a bottle of bad champagne. I’ll be sure to drink some good beer that night. Maybe I’ll open up my bottle of barrel aged Grand Reserve from Parish.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 4:12 am to L.A.
Burgundy.
Lots of delicious burgundy.
Lots of delicious burgundy.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 9:19 am to Panny Crickets
We are eating in the country and have dinner about 4:30 to have plenty of time to cook and visit. A friend is bringing a sack of oysters and he volunteered to shuck and serve, on half shell and chargrilled on the green egg. I have 2 2008 Williams Selyem Blanc sparkling that we will open with those to get it started.
Someone will bring a couple of Chardonnay to go during the day as well.
I am doing a standing rib and a bone in leg of lamb. To serve with dinner I will open a 2009 Fisher Wedding Vineyard Cab Franc and a 2014 Blackbird Paramour magnum.
My wife cooked braised short ribs and grits yesterday and we enjoyed a 2012 Blackbird Paramour. It is a very nice blend.
Might open a Limerick Lane or a Turnbull depending on how the above goes. This group enjoys and will bring a bunch of good gems themselves so I just may get to hold on to one or two of mine.
Someone will bring a couple of Chardonnay to go during the day as well.
I am doing a standing rib and a bone in leg of lamb. To serve with dinner I will open a 2009 Fisher Wedding Vineyard Cab Franc and a 2014 Blackbird Paramour magnum.
My wife cooked braised short ribs and grits yesterday and we enjoyed a 2012 Blackbird Paramour. It is a very nice blend.
Might open a Limerick Lane or a Turnbull depending on how the above goes. This group enjoys and will bring a bunch of good gems themselves so I just may get to hold on to one or two of mine.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 10:00 am to L.A.
quote:
their Petite Petit blend is one of my faves each year.
Love it.
They actually blend a little petite syrah in every red they make.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 9:07 pm to L.A.
St Supery cab
Posted on 11/11/17 at 10:55 pm to L.A.
Probably pick up a decent non-sweet Riesling and maybe a Gewürztraminer. Our crowd are not big drinkers, so anything fancier would be a waste. May hit some better stuff after I get home.
Posted on 11/11/17 at 11:16 pm to L.A.
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