"Clint" <rattlehead at computron dot net> wrote in message
...
> I know this is probably an old topic but I was curious
> what you guys are going to choose to drink for thanksgiving.
>
> The meal I will be drinking it with will be a very typical,
> traditional american thanksgiving dinner; turkey, stuffing,
> pies, cranberry sauce, rolls, blah blah blah....
>
> I was thinking that perhaps there are so many different
> pallates and different tastes in a thanksgiving meal that
> perhaps different whites & reds will be called for?
>
I grew up in a family with a closet French background. My eighty-seven
year old Dad's people were all from Nantes and Marseilles via Canada, but he
never talked about them until the last three years. He did insist, however,
that we had rose every year, which became my emotional association with
Thanksgiving wine. Unfortunately, it was always Mateus, so the association
wasn't that hot.

When I actually lived in France some years later, my French hosts produced a
Grenoble notion of American Thanksgiving dinner for me, and they elected
(without prompting on my part) to serve a very nice Tavel with the meal.
That's what I have each year now.