Thanksgiving Wines

Thanksgiving is just not complete without good wines. My feeling is, if you are going to spend all that time on making a turkey, 10 sides, and 5 desserts, not to mention chaos with your family all being in one house, you'd better have some good wine around.

Here are a few of my favorites:

They are La Crema, Chalk Hill, and Carmel Road, and coincidentally, they are all Chardonnay. I think these buttery chardonnays are your best bet for really engaging the palate in all the flavors of white turkey meat, mashed potatoes, and green beans.



Some other favorites are Bogle Phantom, a red wine, Layer Cake Malbec, and Charles Smith Cabernet Sauvignon. These rich and delicious reds would be decadent with dark turkey meat, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, and pumpkin pie.

No matter what you pick, just make sure that like the mashed potatoes and gravy, there is plenty to go around!

For more wines, you can always check out Wino Wednesday.

Frogs Leap Winery - On Sale

Frogs Leap Winery is a small, wonderful Napa winery that produces excellent and expensive wines. My favorite is their Chardonnay, but their reds are also delicious!

Today, there is a sale on Frogs Leap wines at RueLaLa. Join for updates, and shop this great opportunity to try wonderful wines at bargain prices! Click here to join and take advantage of this sale, beginning at 11:00 AM today through 11:00AM Thursday, August 27th. Sale features multiple bottles, but this is an investment you don't want to miss. Perfect for a birthday, anniversary, or Christmas gift too!

Also, check out Wino Wednesday for a review soon!

Wine Your Worries Away

"I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food."

As a hostess, the one thing I always have on hand is a good bottle of wine. I try to always make healthy meals for dinner to have better eating habits, but the ulterior motive is that my husband can have ice cream for dessert and I can have a glass of wine. Even with takeout, a glass of wine just seems to make everything taste better.

Recently, someone asked me why I haven't featured wine on my blog, especially since I love it so much. After much thought, I decided that reviewing wines every now and then wasn't good enough, since there are so many wonderful ones we have every week. So, I created Wino Wednesday, a blog that updates every Wednesday with a new wine review. I will also be featuring an occasional review here that compliment FTH recipes.

Check out our first wine review: Carmel Road