What is a good Burgundy or Port wine for cooking?

Question

I am looking fora good Burgundy or Port for cooking that is not too expinsive.

Answer 1

Both are great wine for cooking. What is it you are cooking? Beef, lamb, pork, etc? Right down the line, on the average, red meats like beef, wild game....use burgundy. Pork does a little better with port wine. Lamb works with both.
Both are strong wines, port wine is a fortified wine, and burgundy is made from strong grape varietal. As long as the wine a the flavor correctors, and good acidity, you can't go wrong!

Hope this helps........

Answer 2

They are both suitable. Some foods are better with white wine like light colored meats such as fish & chicken. With pork it's a toss up depending hat you are making. A cream sauce with any meat would warrant a white wine. Strong meats do better with reds.
Cheap? OK there are some winse in the grocery stores (near marinades) that are labled cooking wine. They are cheap and often have sone herb or spice seasoning in them.I have used the on occasion and they did the job. I think they were right at $ 2.00
In the end, it's a matter of taste. Expirement with some different flavors. Lokk in the wine section and choose the cheapest you can find. (not Boones Farm or Thunderbird lol)

Answer 3

I am so lucky to live within a few miles of the best winery in New Mexico! They offer sweet and dry red wine and also sweet and dry white bulk table wine by the bottle -- you can bring your own (empty and clean) wine bottles and they will fill them for a very low price. If you've never been there before, they will simply let you taste their on tap wines for free to help you choose a wine you would like... And even make custom blends if you like...A half gallon of bulk table wine goes for $6.60... I "love" their sweet red, which I use a lot -- even in chile! And their dry white, which is perfect! So think if there's a winery nearby... They even sell bottles if you don't have one.

Answer 4

Those are totally different styles. Port is a fortified wine, which is generally sweet (there are dry ones too though) and Burgundy is from the Pinot Noir grape and is not sweet. Perhaps you meant a Beaujolais as most, but not all of wines from this area and made from the gamay grape have more fruit. Need more info please :)

Answer 5

Don't get too cheap when buying wine to cook with. Whatever you use, make sure you would be willing to serve it to drink to your friends. Cooking reduces the wine making the flavours more concentrated.

Answer 6

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