Ep 172: The One Wine Thanksgiving Solution

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Thanksgiving is a meal with so much complexity that you may just want to think about streamlining your wine choices. We offer a "one wine" solution -- versatile choices that go with everything -- so you don't have to stress! Here's the shortlist that we mention:

Whites:

Off-dry Vouvray and off-dry Riesling

Premier Cru Chablis

Alsace whites -- especially Riesling, Muscat, and Gewurztraminer

Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc or Priorat Blanc

Italian whites

Bubbles! American Sparkling or Prosecco are fruitier and may be best

Rosé

Especially New World rosé that can stand up to the multitude of flavors

Bubbly rosé is a great pick too

Reds

Caveat Emptor, since red is less versatile for Thanksgiving. Pick something low in alcohol, low in tannin, and moderate in acidity

Top picks: Beaujolais, Cabernet Franc

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0:00.0	Thanks for
0:08.0	downloading Wine for Normal People Radio,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:14.0	I'm Elizabeth Schneider, a certified Silmaier and certified specialist of wine.
0:20.0	And I'm MC Ice, just a wine-loving normal person.
0:25.0	So it's November.
0:27.0	I have a cold again.
0:30.0	It's getting cooler outside.
0:33.0	Finally, it's taken forever.
0:35.0	I know it's been a very warm, if you're listening to this at some point in the future, it's 2016.
0:40.0	And it has been a very warm year all the way around.
0:43.9	So we haven't really had a cool season yet,
0:47.5	but now it is and unfortunately my cold is pretty bad.
0:51.0	So excuse me if I sound a little nasal. I might already sound a little
0:56.2	nasal to you anyway, but I sound even more. There may be an extra sniffle in here. We are going to do a podcast on Thanksgiving for you this year. Now we have done a couple of
1:09.4	podcasts on Thanksgiving before and a lot of times I will just repost them because the wisdom on Thanksgiving doesn't change always and maybe I'm just a bad newsperson or bad podcaster but I feel like if we already did a podcast, I don't want to rehash what we've already done.
1:26.4	You know what I mean?
1:27.4	No, that's fair. It's not like there's been some new grape discovered and that happens to go well with
1:32.3	Turkey and we need to do a whole
1:34.0	podcast on it. That is very true and I mean occasionally there'll be
1:38.6	something that I get excited about and and we'll want to it's highlight that or spot like that.
1:44.2	But for instance, we did that Halloween
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