I promise you that the time you’ll spend to come to 3CUPS for wine and coffee and more will be worth the trip. After fighting the crowds in the aisles and counters at the supermarket come try a few wines with us this weekend! We haven’t been droning on about turkey wines week after week, but we have been thinking seriously about it in the shop. Jay has put together a Thanksgiving 6 pack and I have witnessed staff conversing about the ins and out of what to serve for Thanksgiving.

Here’s the thing, there is no tradition to uphold and no consensus choice out there amongst the experts. So I asked 3 of our staff to write a single sentence about the subject and suggest 2 wines they would love to be served this Thanksgiving day:

Susannah: My choices are governed by the rich flavors of brown food on the Thanksgiving table: both wines offer pert acidity to play against my stepmother's championship thick gravy and substantial minerality emphasize the subtle gaminess (gameyness?) of the turkey.

Grant: "The eyes, too, must feast" goes the saying, so it's a happy coincidence that wines with bright acidity (so amiable with  big meals like Thanksgiving) are often ruby red, and ravishing in the glass - all the better when people start toasting in earnest!

Matt: Thanksgiving dinner in my mind is all about the side dishes: in my family bacon-wrapped scallops is practically tradition, and my mom's chestnut stuffing and homemade cranberry sauce top the list of things I look forward to every year. If I could make the trip to New Hampshire this year, these wines would be riding shotgun.

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