[Sca-cooks] Wines - was Re: menu planning for dietaryrestrictions...

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

I'm a big fan of frescati and pinot grigio and other cheap italian
whites :). I also had a wonderful argentinian unoaked chardonnay once
(vintage Funky Llama. I kid you not. For about $6 a bottle. Woot!) that
was dry and crisp and fruit and all the things I love but no oak, no
tannin, and none of that "buttery" mouth feel that Americans seem to
like so much. When I was in Burgundy a few years back I was in
heaven...so many wonderful white wines, without the oak tannins I
dislike so much. And for less than bottled water. Woot again!

It seems a banana split would be sweet, sure, but you'd also get that
creamy mouth feel, a bit of bitter from the chocolate, the tang of the
cherry on top and the musky banana. Seems it would go well with a fairly
simple, clean white wine? (ie nothing too complex. Just something to
help cleanse your palate from the icecream so you can start the next
bite anew :))

So I'd go for a frascati, I think. 

But then I think frescati goes with pretty much anything ;)

--AM


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Subject: [Sca-cooks] Wines - was Re: menu planning for
dietaryrestrictions...

'Crisp white wine'...such as?  You piqued my oenophiliac curiosity. :)

Duriel

Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:
> Durien sez:
>   
>> 'Balancing' out an oily, tasty dish with non-oily side dishes sounds
alot like 
>>     
> drinking a diet soda with a banana split. :)
>
> thats funny, I see it as "not overloading the palate so you can really
really enjoy 
> that banana split". which I would serve not with a diet soda but with
a glass of 
> crisp white wine so you have a nice sour/sweet counterpoint.
>
> same way I'd serve a crisp green salad alongside that raclette or
fondue dinner.
>
> different philosophies, I guess :)
>
> --Anne-Marie
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