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Daddy Brad: Now if you’re able to host a holiday gathering at your house and you don’t
have to drive, one great way to stay sane at Thanksgiving is to have a little celebratory
glass of wine. We’ve asked our resident wine snob, Daddy Clay to talk to us today
about holiday wines. Daddy Clay: Now a lot of people say it’s
tough to buy wines at Thanksgiving because it’s difficult to pair wine with food like
a turkey and dressing. But I think this is a great opportunity to try wines that you’ve
really never had before, not the usual kind-of thing. The first thing you need to do is go
out to your local wine shop not some chain. You go to a place like the Whip In here in
Austin, right. It’s a fantastic place. The guys there are going to help you pick out
a wine that pairs well with that food and perhaps show you something you haven’t tried
before. A great example of that is our first wine. You know what, first I’ve gotta say,
my apologies to Gary Vanderchuck and the Wine Library T.V., sorry guys we’re just like
butchering your whole deal right here. Daddy Brad: Sorry dude.
Daddy Clay: Sorry about that. Daddy Brad: They don’t drink it in plastic
cups. I don’t think. Daddy Clay: They do not. Okay, so the first
wine here, this is a Torrontes. Now is an Argentinean grape starting to become popular
here. This is a Crios. Everything that we’re gonna taste here today it’s okay to drink
out of plastic ups, nothing there that’s too fancy. Nothing that’s going to be over
$15 or $16 dollars. Daddy Brad: I have a really discriminating
palette you know. Daddy Clay: Cause in my family the kind of
way people drink wine; this is perfectly good. It’s bright and fruity, it’s gonna be,
you know similar in style to a, maybe a Pinot Grigio, a good one. Maybe more like a Sauvignon
Blanc, something like that. Light and fruity, this is going to go with turkey really well.
Daddy Brad: Yeah, I like turkey. Crios right, Crios.
Daddy Clay: That’s a Crios and our second wine, this is just a good old-fashioned inexpensive
Bogle Chardonnay. These guys make almost every variety of wine, you can always depend on
the guys to give you a solid value and a good glass of wine. This is just a good old California
Chardonnay. Daddy Brad: Old school.
Daddy Clay: Easy drinking, under $10 bucks. Your relatives are gonna guzzle this out of
plastic cups and be happy campers. Cheers. Daddy Brad: Cheers. Yeah I like that.
Daddy Clay: More oaky, tastes a little more wood, some more kind of tropical flavors.
Daddy Brad: Oaky? Like from Oklahoma? Daddy Clay: It’s fine, good stuff, good
juice. Not that at all. You’re an idiot. Okay our last wine and I think if you’re
gonna choose a red wine to go with turkey, a Pinot Noir is a good way to go. It’s a
little bit a lighter style red. This is a Grayson. This is a good quality wine, nothing
too fancy here. Just a nice light style, you can see from the color it’s gonna be, this
is not some big fat Cabernet or Red Zin. It’s not going to overwhelm the flavors of the
turkey, but still if you like drinking red wine with dinner, which I do. I drink red
wine with anything, fish, whatever, turkey, you bet.
Daddy Brad: Yeah, that’s good. I like that. Red.
Daddy Clay: So with apologies to Gary Vanderchuck, these are our ideas for Thanksgiving wines.
Cheers. Daddy Brad: Yeah, cheers. So you know if you
get to stay home have a little glass of wine. Take the edge off you know because you’ll
be a lot less likely to blow a gasket when Junior fills up grandma’s purse with giblet
gravy. Daddy Clay: It’s happened.
Daddy Brad: Yeah. Daddy Clay: I’ve seen it, sticky.
Daddy Brad: Cheers.