Wine for cooking

[Kcwhippet]

Well, one thing you don't want to do is use a wine that has a lot of oak. The sauce will taste like hardwood flooring. My rec for the Syrah is based on an article done some years ago by Cook's Illustrated. They made several types of sauces with a number of wines and found the Syrah based wines made the most consistently pleasing sauce in all cases. This is for a sauce with red wine, obviously.