Wine for very large dinner

[Thomas]

I once poured into a black glass a Rhone red, and then into another black glass I poured an Alsatian Gewurztraminer. I asked about fifteen people to tell me which of the two was a white wine. Only one person got it right.

Moral of the story: Gewurztraminer holds up to pepper just as well as a Rhone because the former is powerful too; it would handle the duck, and in so doing, it would astonish everyone.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 02-11-2002).]