Monterey County, California – $16
Thanksgiving dinner serves up so many contrasting flavors on one plate, like turkey, candied yams and cranberry sauce, that no one wine can really pair with all of them.
Plus, this isn’t a dinner for two so keeping the wine affordable is as important as dodging Aunt Mabel’s questions about why you’re not married or don’t have (more) kids. That’s why you don’t need a wine for pairing you need a wine for drinking!
This year we are choosing the 2007 Poppy Pinot Noir as our go-to Turkey Day choice. Pinot Noir is a skeleton key red wine because it’s light and won’t overpower anything on the table. The bright fruit flavors will stand up to the plethora of different foods and the acidity goes great with the bird. And this wine is really likable and easy to drink yet the quality is high enough to please even the snobbiest of relatives.
Drink liberally with everything you can fit on your first, second or third plate, or anything in the fridge when the late night munchies strike.
