is turkey foul or game?? also whats a nice red wine with turkey?

Answer 1

It is "fowl" no matter what... if wild, it is a "game-fowl". If it is domestic it would also be considered "poultry"!! We harvest 4 wild-turkeys on our property each season in California.

On Thanksgiving at my Brother's Ranch, my sister-in-law served a nice Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon. Tasted just fine with our turkeys (domestic), one smoked and one deep-fried and one wild-roasted. We also had a Merlot, but I liked the Cabernet more.

A very Merry Christmas, and a delightful meal to you and yours.

Answer 2

Turkey is fowl unless it is wild.

Turkey is the classic fall meal, having been enjoyed for centuries with the fresh harvest vegetables. Each fall, People around the world are celebrating a good harvest by eating the fresh crops - potatoes, squash, cranberry, corn, along with turkey, venison, and fresh fish. A pumpkin or apple pie finishes off the meal. What wines go well with these fresh and flavorful dishes?

First, it seems appropriate that many people pour a glass of Beaujolais Nouveau! This is the "first wine of this harvest" - barely any time passes between when the grapes are picked and the bottles are out to the consumers. It celebrates the grape harvest of the year.

How does this young Beaujolais Nouveau taste? It's a very white-wine style, since it has not been with the skins for long and has hardly aged at all. It should be drunk chilled - around 45F, and is a light, fruity wine. It goes well with turkey, or with brie and edam for a pre-dinner snack!

What if you're looking for something a bit more flavorful? The classic pairing with turkey is Pinot Noir. Typical pinot noir flavors include earth, leather, vanilla (from the oak), and jam ... the fruity flavors of the jam often taste like raspberry, strawberry, and plum. This goes great with goose.

White wine lovers should try Chardonnay or a Dry Riesling. Both will do nicely with the gentle flavors of the turkey.

If you like sweeter wines, a white zinfandel or cranberry wine will work nicely.

Answer 3

farm raised turkeys are classed as fowl. Wild turkeys are game because they have to be hunted. Any soft red wine would work. I like the sparkling wines at Christmas they help get rid of excess gas within the drinker..lol

Answer 4

If it is a wild turkey, it's game. I think you are suppose to drink white wine with foul. But I won't tell if you drink red, Merry Christmas!

Answer 5

It's fowl if you bought it, and game if you shot it. :-)

Turkey does well with a light red wine, especially either a pinot noir or a wine from Beaujolais (made with the gamay noir grape). Italian valpolicella wines can also be very good with turkey, as they tend to be lighter, less tannic wines.

Personally... I like to serve turkey with a dry rose, and yes, there ARE such things. Our Thanksgiving turkey went very, very well with a Torre dei Beati rosato di montepulciano, an Italian rose made from the same grapes as the well-known red Montepulciano d'Abbruzzo, but with only a few hours of skin contact. The wine is then fermented to the same degree of dryness as for a red montepulciano, but it's lighter, takes well to chilling, and is perfect for turkey, goose, Guinea fowl, or other robust and full-flavored game. It was so good we got another bottle for Christmas. (We also have some light reds backing it up, including a nice, modestly priced Sangiovese from Di Majo Norante -- the link in the Sources field for which, I note with some interest, specifically mentions turkey as one of its better pairings).

Les Jamelles from France also makes a rose of some southern-French varietal which I can't recall (cinsault? One of the classics), and we had a very good, fully dry Spanish rose made from tempranillo grapes sometime over the summer. And domestically, Bonny Doon Vineyards (near Santa Cruz, California) makes two different dry rose wines, Vin Gris de Cigare (about $11) and Big House Pink (about $8). The Vin Gris, modeled after their Chateauneuf-du-Pape inspired red called Le Cigare Volant, is a classic blend of southern French varietals (grenache, syrah, mourvedre, carignane, etc.) and has a nice subtlety, a pale pink color but good body. The Big House Pink has more fruit, a hair more residual sugar, and less complexity, but hasn't yet descended into the special enological hell reserved for "blush zinfandel."

And lastly... many people (ourselves included, in other years) like to serve the controversial Beaujolais Nouveau with turkey, at least in part because it is released in mid-November, right before the U.S. Thanksgiving. I call Nouveau controversial because most people either love it or hate it -- it's not like any other wine, and this is appealing to some people and appalling to others. Basically, it's wine from this year's harvest, fermented in a different method that results in a very different set of flavors. At its best, it's a fresh, light, vibrant and exciting cranberry-colored beverage that is fun and frolicsome; at its worst it tastes like grape juice gone bad, slightly fizzy but not in a good way. I'm not serving it this year because it's not to our liking; I enjoyed it somewhat, but my wife didn't at all, and neither of us thought it was worth the $10 retail compared to other modestly priced well-made reds.

Answer 6

Most people do not serve a red with turkey since it's poultry; however you might get away with a pinot noir since it's light.

And...correct..."fowl" is anything that flies. "Game" is anything that is wild and not domesticated. Wild turkeys are game birds.

Answer 7

I say it's game if wild, and fowl if domestically (farm) raised.

Austrailian Merlot.

Answer 8

It is game. A nice red SANGRIA tastes great with poultry.