Wine with Fried Turkey?

[sunshine61250]

Hi. We are military stationed overseas and I'm trying to find a European wine to try with the Thanksgiving dinner we are having for our local neighbors (who have a lot more experience with wine than I do!). Our dinner will include a deep fried turkey injected with beer, garlic and lemon juice. I will also be serving a cornbread stuffing with sausage, blueberries, cherries and mushrooms. Can anyone suggest something?

Thanks!

[Innkeeper]

Hi Sunshine, and welcome to the Wine Board. If it was just turkey, we would recommend an appropriate white wine, but all the Thanksgiving trimmings really require a red to hold it all together.

Recommend a Cotes du Rhone from Southern France or a Primitivo from Southern Italy. One white that could work would be a Spatlese Riesling from Germany preferably from the Rheingau.

[sunshine61250]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.

[Izzy]

While I would always defer to Innkeeper as the expert, I would suggest a Spanish Albarino as a suitable white. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Albarinos and recently I took a bottle to a friend's house to match up with some lemon chicken. The pairing was perfect (his words!). Just my .02

[sunshine61250]

Thank you Izzy!