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- dchen - 08-20-2001
In my group of friends there seems to be a good number who will drink only white wine. As frustrating as this is when I want to serve a beef dish such as Boeuf Bourguignon, I feel they have a right to their preference. Are there any good suggestions as to what I pour in their glasses with such a dish?
- Innkeeper - 08-21-2001
Off dry white wines can be matched with beef. The Germans did this for centuries before they discovered red wine recently. Ausleses from Rheinhessen or Pfalz, well chilled, will do the trick. You may have to blindfold your red wine drinking friends to get them to try it, or you could serve them red wine.
Be a little more judicious in your menu selection. Sauerbraten would be preferable to Beef Bourguignon.
- winoweenie - 08-21-2001
Or you could blindfold your friend and serve Him/Her a marvelous Cabernet. WW
- lolly mackenzie - 08-21-2001
Or work with veal. I find it hard to enjoy red meat with white wine. Even the mightiest white would have a hard time holding up with Beef Bourginiuon. I have a number of friends who also are white drinkers and I always have a good white to offer but I decant reds and put them on the table an most times - they will accept a glass with dinner.
- Thomas - 08-21-2001
I once did an experiment: poured a few wines in black glasses so that you could not identify their color. One of the wines I poured was white, the rest were red (Rhone red). I asked people to tell me which was the white wine. Most could not do it. The white wine I used was a Zind Humbrecht Gewurztraminer. So, maybe you can serve them a G without telling them what it is. But then, veal (which is the meat for Wiener Schnitzel) is always a fine alternative to beef.
- lolly mackenzie - 08-21-2001
ya das is gut foodie. Vite gervertz mit veener shnetzal is vantasteek!
- wondersofwine - 08-21-2001
Jawohl!
(At a fancy reunion dinner with sorority sisters, Susie said that after two glasses of wine she starts talking too much. I said that after three glasses of German wine, I start talking German!)
I like Gewurz or Riesling with veal and red Burgundy with boeuf bourgignon. If the guests won't go along with a red wine when appropriate, let them drink water!