CliveW
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Being a lover of Malbec with our steaks on a Friday night, I was wondering whether to have red or white with our turkey dinner this Friday and looking for any recommendations.
Wine With Turkey Dinner.
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IanG
Tour Rookie
Swap the turkey for a nice ribeye !
fundy
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Drink what you enjoy and dont worry too much about what the so called experts say you should pair with which food imho
If you like Malbec, have a Malbec
Me Ill be having a nice white Montagny with mine
If you like Malbec, have a Malbec
Me Ill be having a nice white Montagny with mine
GB72
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Drink what you enjoy and dont worry too much about what the so called experts say you should pair with which food imho
If you like Malbec, have a Malbec
Me Ill be having a nice white Montagny with mine
Totally agree, I have a few nice reds lined up for Friday.
hairball_89
Club Champion
totally agree with @fundy (you can tell this isn't a football thread!)
Drink what you want. You're already ruining the meal with Turkey, so you should definitely drink whatever you want to make up for it!
In terms of flavourings if you want to get 'matchy' my personal preference is pair bold with bold/subtle with subtle rather than contrast - so if your food is full of big flavours, then choose a drink that matches, if your food is subtle then do that.
But at the end of the day, choose what you enjoy.
Drink what you want. You're already ruining the meal with Turkey, so you should definitely drink whatever you want to make up for it!
In terms of flavourings if you want to get 'matchy' my personal preference is pair bold with bold/subtle with subtle rather than contrast - so if your food is full of big flavours, then choose a drink that matches, if your food is subtle then do that.
But at the end of the day, choose what you enjoy.
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
Sounds odd to say, but depends what you like? If you prefer a red, then have a red. There's more old cobblers talked about wine than is necessary.
If you like a Malbec, I can recommend the Q Malbec from Laithwaites. But I'd tend to have a slightly lighter grape with turkey - currently drinking a nice "Beyond The River" Shiraz from SE Australia which would go nicely with it. Got ours from a local wine merchants (Davys) but I dare say its more widely available.
If you like a Malbec, I can recommend the Q Malbec from Laithwaites. But I'd tend to have a slightly lighter grape with turkey - currently drinking a nice "Beyond The River" Shiraz from SE Australia which would go nicely with it. Got ours from a local wine merchants (Davys) but I dare say its more widely available.
ExRabbit
Club Champion
Not been mentioned yet, but the obvious answer is BOTH!
White to get things going, then red afterwards.
You're welcome.
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Dando
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Surely binning the turkey is the only thing you can do
Neilds
Assistant Pro
Why does it have to be wine? Winds me up on shows like Saturday Kitchen when they always recommend wine, even for curries . Why not cider or a craft ale? Always trying to match wine is snobby and outdated IMO
Dando
Q-School Graduate
Why do they never suggest blue nun or black tower to go with a meal?
Neilds
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Dando
Q-School Graduate
If I want to push the boat out I’ll get a bottle of asti Spumante
Tashyboy
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Drink what you enjoy and dont worry too much about what the so called experts say you should pair with which food imho
If you like Malbec, have a Malbec
Me Ill be having a nice white Montagny with mine
This and just to add to it, when you go to a restaurant they bring you the wine list, you order the wine, then they bring you the menu. If it is so essential that wine goes with food. Should the menu not be the first to look at. Furthermore, if four folk order, Fish, steak, chicken and lamb and you are sharing a bottle. What do you order apart from what the women want.
Doon frae Troon
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backwoodsman
Tour Winner
You can still get Blue Nun??
Neilds
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backwoodsman
Tour Winner
Fair enough. Have just never looked for it (not for about 40 years that is). German white wine doesn't float my boat - and believe me, you could float a boat in the quantity we get through
Foxholer
Blackballed
Roast Turkey is, perhaps fortunately, one of the easiest foods to 'match' wine with - basically any flavour works!
So go for what you like best - though Xmas is THE time to break open 'special occasion' wines!
So go for what you like best - though Xmas is THE time to break open 'special occasion' wines!
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Go with what you like.
I like German whites so virtually always go with a Mosel sometimes you will see it as Riesling Mosel to go with the starter so the beginning of the main course is with white as the bottle gets finished off I then switch to red as red is my daily preferred wine.
Blue Nun is a Mosel
My favourite use to be Deinhard Green Label but hard to find these days and has risen steeply in price as has most good German wine.
I like German whites so virtually always go with a Mosel sometimes you will see it as Riesling Mosel to go with the starter so the beginning of the main course is with white as the bottle gets finished off I then switch to red as red is my daily preferred wine.
Blue Nun is a Mosel
My favourite use to be Deinhard Green Label but hard to find these days and has risen steeply in price as has most good German wine.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I'm going to be toasting the turkey with a nice glass of chilled Nosecco - and once I'm done with that I intend to sup a bottle or two of Lucky Saint non-alc beer.
