Wedding Wine on a Budget

[misterjive]

Also, you've got to get some Brut, and not just for the toast. Check out the wedding wine info toward the top of this forum. I agree with Innkeeper about national stats, and it seems kind of odd to get 36 bottles of white but only 6 of red. A California Zinfandel would go with both your meats, and an oaky Cali Sangiovese might as well. Get 24 bottles of Chard, 6 of Merlot or Cab, and 6 of (real) Zin or Pinot Noir, and 6 or even 12 of White Zin (plus some bubbly). As for the White Zin, I don't drink the stuff, and disapprove of it on principle, but then, Robert Mondavi invented it, and he's a bujillionaire, and I'm not. The bottom line is that lots of people (read: women, if I must be sexist) who don't otherwise drink wine happily drink white zin. So buy De Loach. They make reliably good wines....By the way, you can get plenty of good wines for under $12 a bottle (buy South American; the way I promote the Southern hemisphere in these pages, you'd think I got kickbacks from Argentine and Chilean producers). And most importantly, have a great wedding!