{"id":1954,"date":"2018-11-21T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:14:22","slug":"wine-and-food-pairing-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/wine-and-food-pairing-for-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Pairing your Homemade Wines for Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Pairing your homemade wines with your Thanksgiving meal can be tricky. Check out some of our wine and food pairing suggestions to help you show off your delicious wine!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Turkey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Light Reds, Medium Reds, and Rich White Wines pair well with Chicken and other White Meats like Thanksgiving Turkey. Your Pinot Noir, Gamay, Grenache, Chardonnay, or GSM Blend would be a great compliment to the meal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beef:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beef, Cured Meats, and Smoked Meats pair best with Medium or Full Bodied Reds. Try your Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, Castel del Papa, or Italian Blend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fish:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, red wine CAN be paired with fish! Try a Light Red or a Light Dry White such as your Gamay or Pinot Grigio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carbs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most Carbohydrates can pair with most wines. It really depends on the sauce. Try your Cabernet-Merlot Blend or Il Toscano to balance and enhance the flavors of a tomato sauce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vegetables:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Light White or Med-Light Red will compliment most vegetables &#8211; whether they are roasted or dressed. Try your Viognier or Grenache.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">We want to wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving. We hope it is a wonderful day filled with family, friends, and great homemade wine!<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cheers Winemakers!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pairing your homemade wines with your Thanksgiving meal can be tricky. Check out some of our wine and food pairing suggestions to help you show off your delicious wine!\u00a0 Turkey: Light Reds, Medium Reds, and Rich White Wines pair well with Chicken and other White Meats like Thanksgiving Turkey. Your Pinot Noir, Gamay, Grenache, Chardonnay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[607,222,606,608],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/thanksgiving-turkey.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZM5f-vw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.juicegrape.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}