Beaujolais Dinner

[mrdutton]

Well we are all drifting away from the topic that started this thread.........

Be that as it may......... Shared Thanksgiving with most of the whole family this year. (Years past have been private, like Christmas.)

We went to Delaware to be with the parents. My Brother, his wife, and their three children; myself, my wife, my daughter and her two children (yeah, we's grandparents).

Snacks consisted of Shrimp and spicy cocktail sauce, baked Brie en Croute, plain Brie, Asiago, Baby Swiss, Aged (8 year) Cheddar, Boar's Head Pepperoni slices, Havarti with Jalapeno Pepper, assorted crackers.

Booze included gin, vodka and Jack Daniels. Wine included three bottles of Georges D. Nouveau Beaujolais. The snacks got eaten and the GD got drunk. Not much hard stuff was consumed. Most of the folks liked the fruity, jammy (no, not bubble gum), banana flavor of the Nouveau.

Dinner was a mish-mash of Oven Roasted Turkey, Cranberry Stuffing, Oyster Stuffing, Creamed Green Beans with Onion Rings, Fresh roasted carrots in a butter sauce, sauerkraut, sweet potatoes (Haymans from Eastern Shore Virginia) with pears topped off with a mix of pecans, flour and brown sugar; Whole cranberry sauce with raisons and ground cloves.

Wine was served and it included a Schmitt-Sohne Reisling Kabinett (sp?), two bottles of KJ Zin-Shiraz Collage, one Gallo of Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon and one more bottle of the GD Beaujolais Nouveau.

Most of the men and the women drank the CS like it was going to be the last glass they ever had. However, the Reisling was a big hit with the rest of the folks. After the CS and the SW (the German white wine stuff), the KJ Collage was then consumed.

Everything pulled together, a miracle that was...... The Reisling and the CS went away first. Then the KJ Zin-Shiraz disappeared as noted above.

Then some where around Mince Meat Pie time, the rest of the GD Nouveau disappeared.

The fruity, jammy, banana flavor of the Nouveau was a great begining and a great ending, it seemed.