Thanksgiving Dinner Tasting Script
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Course 1:
Hors d'oeuvres
Dry meats, Cheeses, Breads, and Charcuterie boards.
Dry Rosé
Is made from red grapes and very much made in the way that is found a lot in the southern part of France along the Mediterranean. It’s on the drier side. Depending on the season it’s either made from Pinot Noir or Merlo. It picks up strawberry and raspberry characteristics within a stainless-steel barrel. It has nice acidity a fullness in the body with bouncability—goes well with a charcuterie board, great appetizers meats, dried meats, cheeses, even rosemary flat bread, salad—stay away from vinegarettes, it’s very flexible.
Course 2: Appetizers
Creamier foods, shellfish, crab, scallops, or a quail pie!
Viognier
The grapes inside are from a grape grown with less frequency in the Rhone region of France and California. It has taken off in Virginia and become synonymous with Virginia wine region white wine making in the last 20 years. It offers subdued acidity with a richer style and a lot of fruit in the aroma. Infuses flavors of honeysuckle, pear, ripe apple and lends itself well to seafood, creamier or buttery shellfish i.e. crab or scallops and goes well with Moroccan and Indian spices—known as the red wine lovers white wine-it’s a big wine that can go with a lot of things.
Course 3:
Turkey
Glazed roast turkey with cranberry stuffing.
Semi-Dry Riesling
Made from a white grape variety originating in the Rhine region of Germany considered to be one of the highest quality and most noble white wine variety. It is the perfect in between wine—go to for celebrations and holidays—Christmas, Thanksgiving—not too dry/or sweet/ boasts round creamy characteristics white fruit flowers such as peach, apricot, apples, elegant characteristics. Not bone dry—goes well with spicy foods, Thai, Asian dish, light chicken casseroles, anything with apples, pears is perfect.
Course 4:
Desserts
Chocolate, pies, sourdough bread pudding with blueberries and cabernet crème.
Chocolate
It’s a red wine, and it starts with a Merlo base and then added to that are different chocolate --dark chocolate and a Brazilian cocoa that sits in the barrel and comes together. A chocolate factory smell when it’s being made in the cellar! It’s smooth and there is a little bit of port wine to give it a bit of substance. Goes great with a spicy chili, a pound cake, to actual chocolate.