The idea is cool - sample Thanksgiving food items with different wines and see what works for you. Now, according to my PIC, anyone in their right mind knows that Zinfandel goes with turkey - and Pinot, if you run out of Zin - but one year, we found ourselves with a free weekend and we signed up for one of these sit-down tastings.
Six wines were poured along side of a sampling platter of traditional holiday fare - among them the Proprieter's Reserve White, Dry Riesling, Dry Rose, Pinot Noir, and two other reds that escape me at the moment but I think one of them was the Due Rossi. We began the exercise with anything but an open mind; we knew exactly which wine we would prefer and that would be, perhaps our favorite Chaddsford wine, the 2007 Pinot Noir.
That was a long story to get here but all of this came back to me, not so much because of Thanksgiving dinner, but because we opened a bottle of the 2007 Due Rossi. I have to admit that I was a little hesitant as we had a bottle of the 2007 Pinot a few weeks ago and it's currently sitting in the cooking wine section of the refrigerator. That's not necessarily a knock to Chaddsford but more that we may have held it too long.
Anyway, back to the Due - 80% Barbera, 20% Sangiovese and ten months in French and Hungarian oak. Somewhat light in color and medium bodied, it was soft and round with cherry, licorice and violets with beautifully refined tannins. It was wonderful, just as I remembered!
By the way, we chose the Riesling and the Rose to go with our turkey dinner. Go figure......
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