Recommendations for a modestly priced wine to serve with turkey?

We went with Champagne and it's working out well.   How could it not, I guess?

Sidenote: if you live somewhere that has no idea what a cranberry is (eg, Southeast Asia), buy a pomegranite and use that.  Goes great with poultry, but a bit tough to balance on a fork. 

ml1 said:

Sparkling wine is always a nice choice.  Gruet is about $13:

yes, how about a prosecco? great value.

drummerboy said:

ml1 said:

Sparkling wine is always a nice choice.  Gruet is about $13:

yes, how about a prosecco? great value.

Proseccos are a great value, but I think most are a bit too light for a big heavy meal...but for a starter course or if your Thanksgiving meal goes towards lighter in weight and spice and texture and such, they work fine....especially if that's what you like. Prosecco is by far the fastest selling sparkling wine in sales growth but a couple of things to help differentiate them. There are two styles, "frizzante" and "spumante". Spumante has the traditional thicker cork and wire basket keeping it intact because spumante means a fuller fizz similar to Champagne. "Frizzante" is lighter fizz which is why most of those have a standard cork or a screwtop...not as much pressure. A lot if not the majority of Prosecco is classified as "extra dry"...some, often the spumante style, are "brut". Brut is drier than Extra Dry...I know, go figure. But in addition to most Prosecco being frizzante, they have a touch of sweetness with that extra dry designation (hardly sweet, but call it off-dry). Extra dry probably goes better with spicier food...so lighter spicy ethnic dishes are a good match for those. The frizzante also tends to be less expensive because it is less labor intensive to make. Sparkling wines go through two fermentations, the first to make it a wine, the second to add the fizz. With many Prosecco that second fermentation happens not in individual bottles, but in big tanks, which makes them less expensive to produce, and better values.

And we get this all for free... Imagine that!

marylago said:

And we get this all for free... Imagine that!

It's because I like you...although when its free, I don't fact check or proofread

thanks for the info hank. I didn't know about the two types of prosecco, but by chance maybe, I think I've always managed to buy the spumante style. Can't remember a screw top among them.  I love the stuff and its light refreshing taste. 

Complex wines get my palate confused (I think this is why I don't care for them. But "confused palate" may just be another way of saying "doesn't taste good") and just are not as enjoyable to me as cleaner ones.

That's great information, Hank.  Thanks.  I just think of Prosseco as upscale ginger ale, which I love, but going forward I'll pay more attention to the type. 

Dupe, sorry