Planning ahead: Wine for Thanksgiving Dinner

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>>And just to tickle Roberto's purist button: since turkey is an American bird, why would you want Italian wine with it?<<

Thanks for the nice easy lob! In short, because the Italians make wines DESIGNED to heighten the enjoyment of large meals instead of adding to your heartburn with uber extract and high alcohols. Also, we have arrived at this recommendation after over fifteen years of exhaustive research (unlike some of you, I LOVE Turkey, dark meat at least, and all the trimmings and there is a great deli here where you can get the works year round so we've tried everything.) and the Novello we feature is hugely flavorful, low in tannins, not too alcoholic and even Grandma likes it. The fact that it ages well (for six to ten months to serve a t BBQ the next summer) is icing on the cake. AND, it's $5.99!!!!!

Next serve, Roberto