Wine selection question?

Question

I making a pasta dish with a tomato based sauce, but I'm also using chicken as the meat portion of the meal. What wine, both color and variety of said color, should I go with? Need to know before Saturday!!!!

Answer 1

Hi Chili! I have to go with some lovely Gewurztraminer. It's a white and is my favorite....brand Fetzer. I drink it with anything and everything. Warning though...it's on the sweet side.

Good luck and Buon appetito!

Answer 2

I would go for a red (personally I'd go with a red burgundy/pinot noir). The best thing to do is whichever wine you use, buy an extra bottle, then add about a qaurter of the wine to your tomatoe sauce 10-15 minutes before it's done. This will create a bridge so that whatever wine you serve with the sauce will have similarities with the wine.

Answer 3

I'd go for a crisp Rosé (not an overly fruity one though). Something like a Faustino V Roija. Thus complimenting both the tomato in the sauce (more tradiionally red wines) and the chicken & pasta (more traditionally white wines).

The Faustine V Riojas also come in Red and White if you do not like Rosé, but the red may be a little rich

Answer 4

red wine definately. My first choice Sangiovese, from Silverado or Luna Vineyards in Napa. Second would be an Italian Chianti like Ruffino or Gabbiano.

Both are light enough in style so that they do not over power the chicken and sauce.

Answer 5

A nice, New Zealand Pinot Noir.... Stoneleigh if you can find it. If not then the Australian winery Seven Hills makes a great one also. Enjoy! And try not to let the megalomania get in the way of a good thing (again) *sniff*

Answer 6

Are you attempting to contain the beers as a compliment to the dinner or purely something for the non-wine drinkers to drink? EDIT: properly, in my opinion i could attempt to pair beer to the food so as that the final adventure is more suitable yet i think of a minimum of you need to decide for something first rate like Sam Adam's Boston Lager. you in easy terms get married as quickly as acceptable? Sam Adam's is a lager that maximum pedestrian beer drinkers could be happy to drink on the grounds that they don't seem to be procuring it, and maximum beer geeks could purely be happy they does not be compelled to drink Budweiser. i don't think of you may desire to have a selection of beers while you're actually not pairing them to the meal, "gentle" beer drinkers will proceed to exist i'm specific. A keg could be your terrific guess and that i in my opinion do not think of that is cheesy. IMO eating out of a can or bottle is extra cheesy than having a acceptable pour served in a acceptable glass. i think of an 8 gallon keg could be extra suitable than adequate. As for the wine, a million bottle in line with 2 human beings feels like a secure variety. perhaps tack on a pair of extra bottles for good diploma. that is hard to assert what number of folk will decide for wine, and how many will decide for beer yet such as you suggested bottled wine that's not drank might properly be saved for yet another day. i'm a pink guy myself with a lean in the direction of Cabernet over Merlot yet my sturdy point is beer so i will go away the wine suggestion to somebody extra knowledgeable.

Answer 7

wine snobbery no longer exists

it used to be white with fish and chicken , and red with meat

but now its acceptible to just have whatever wine you like with a meal

i like red wine myself , but cannot stand white , but because of tradition was forced to have it with fish

my favourite wine at the moment is called isla negra , its from chile

all the best
Ian

Answer 8

For a red wine you could have any kind of italian wine of your choice that you like.

Answer 9

i'd suggest a nice red italian valpolicella.