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Six Great Thanksgiving Wines

Last year I posted about ten good Thanksgiving wines and it seemed to be popular. Well, this year I’ve scaled it back because who really needs ten wines anyway?

Let’s begin with the same caveat I used last year: Turkeys are basically stupid, oversized geese who don’t know how to fly, so the wine pairings are like the birds themselves: awkward. That said, a lot more than turkey ends up in a Thanksgiving dinner, so here are six wines well worth pouring.

These recommendations come from a recent tasting D’Aun and I had with Desmond Echavarrie of Scale Wine Group

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French Laundry…the wine

We loved the wine pairing choices that The French Laundry created for us.  If you missed it, here’s the link to the dinner menu. If the photo is too difficult to read for you, I posted the wines below.


Gaston Chiquet, Blanc de Blancs d’Ay, Grand Cru, Champagne MV

Rudi Pichler, Grumer-Veltliner Federspiel, Wachau 2009

Francois Raveneau, chablis 1st Cru, “Montee de Tonnerre,” Burgundy 2008

Araujo, Cabernet Sauvignon, “Eisele Vineyard,” Napa Valley 2006

Failla Estate, Syrah, Sonoma Coast 2009

Oremus, Tokaji-Aszu, “5 Puttonyos,” Tokaji 2002…