3 Wines for a Memorial Day Cookout
By Marisa D'Vari | May 30th, 2010 | Category: News, Wine reviews | No Comments »Memorial Day 2010 and everyone is making the rounds of outdoor parties. Wondering what wine to bring for a cookout?
The first thing is to make assumptions that the food will be the usual items you see at many Memorial Day cookouts such as hot dogs and hamburgers, fried chicken, a variety of different salads, and so forth. Below are some crowd pleasing wines that will go with a variety of dishes.
1. Elyssia Pinot Noir sparkling wine
I had this wine for V-day and it was fabulous. It is a very pretty pale pink color and looks great in a fluted glass. Delicious too!
2. Frei Brothes Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2007
had a craving for Sauvignon Blanc (SB) so I opened the 2007 Russian River Valley first. In a blind tasting, I feel fairly certain I could pick this out as a new world SB -- it has an initial 'old world' feeling in terms of the minerals and softer fruit and acidity, yet the higher alcohol is here at 13.5. People who find zesty New Zealand style wines too jarring will prefer this softer style, with a floral nose and ripe fruit.
3. William Hill Estate Chardonnay 2007
Buttery, with oak, and to me a slight tange of cinammon and other spice. Yet the flavors are "real" (as opposed to being fabricated, more on that in another post) with good concentration of fruit, complexity of flavors, typicity of the region (California, you got that right), and balance between the fruit, acid, and oak.
There you have it! Party on!
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