which wine

[cmt813]

help!! i have a college assignment to prepare a 4-5 course meal for a couple's 50th wedding anniversary. i thought it would be nice to try to pair the meal with 50year old wines but is that a little over doing it?
here's my menu:
1. an appetiser of stuffed mushrooms with a marsala wine in the resipe.
2. for salad a nice ceasar salad might do the trick
3. as an intermezzo i chose a nice basic fruit mousse.
4. an entree of chicken marsala. obviously i should serve a marsala wine, right, but which one? what vintage, what vinyard and what verietal? (what ever that means) im barely old enough to drink it to test anything.
5. for dessert i am looking at a chocolate mousse with brandy or rum in it.
help!!! this is my grade


[This message has been edited by cmt813 (edited 09-15-2002).]

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[Innkeeper]

We have a reluctance to do people's homework around here, through we sometimes get suckered in. With a little effort you can find all your answers right here on this thread.

[Drew]

I don't understand how a teacher would expect a specific rec. of wine, eg particular winery. What I would recommend is to visit some sites, winespectator.com, stratsplace.com etc as they have general food/wine pairing sections. Then I would study some vintage charts and choose those good vintages that are ready to drink, and accessable, and make your choices on that investigation.

Drew