A few weeks ago — testing your memories — I wrote a post about what we would be drinking this Autumn season, and those wines were gamays and the darker rosés. Such wines are especially valuable during the upcoming Thanksgiving season, where we give thanks for delicious wines to drink during the sometimes-difficult meal. I don’t mean difficult in the sense that Uncle Phil won’t stop talking politics at a table that’s supposed to be a politics-neutral zone, but difficult in the sense of offering a mind-boggling array of contradictory flavor sensations that matching a wine with can be a challenge. Anyway, regardless of Uncle Phil, that’s why I go with gamay, rosé and, also, dry riesling.
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