Thanksgiving wine wisdom from around the cyber-ether:
· Dave McIntyre at the Washington Post: "Open one of everything." Is it any wonder that Dave is the Wine Curmudgeon's kind of guy?
· Eric Asimov in the New York Times: "As always, please don’t contort yourself trying to find only the specific bottles we recommend. These bottles are simply examples of the types of wines that ought to work well at Thanksgiving." This, actually, may be the best advice any important wine writer has ever given. And he even recommends a New York wine.
· Stephen Meuse in the Boston Globe: The only time I've ever seen the word apothegm used in a wine review (or anywhere else, for that matter). But his advice is sound, and he recommends Massachusetts wine. What's with these big deal wine writers suddenly hopping on the DrinkLocalWine.com bandwagon?
It shows that "Drink Local" is gaining some traction. I'm glad that Eric and Stephen have joined the movement. The more success it receives in the mainstream media (though they both have "blogs"), the more the word gets out. Thanks is largely due to you and Dave McIntyre for being such stalwart evangelists.
Posted by: Michael Wangbickler | November 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM
That's kind of you, and Dave and I will take some of the credit. But there are a bunch of people out there doing incredible things to spread the regional gospel, and the wines deserve it. And, honestly, if someone had said five years ago that major wine writers would be recommending regional wine for Thanksgiving, I would have thought there was a better chance of Robert Parker giving a 95 to a wine from Gascony.
Posted by: Jeff Siegel | November 24, 2009 at 03:30 PM
I also have a list on my Wine Blog:
http://schiller-wine.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-glass-suggestions-for-thanksgiving_14.html
Cheers.
Christian
Posted by: Christian G.E. Schiller | November 25, 2009 at 01:58 PM