- Created Date: Sep 9, 2010
Wine Of The Week
Pop open a sparkling wine for Rosh Hashanah.
Tomorrow marks the start of the Jewish calendar and, like so many other traditions of the faith, this one involves symbolic foods. But with so many items incorporated into the celebration--such as apples, honey, fish, beef tongue, black-eyed peas, pomegranate, leeks and spinach--it's a wine-pairing nightmare.
But Team Daily Sip is here to help. We enlisted the help of Tyler Colman, a.k.a. Dr. Vino, whose blog regularly features solutions for seemingly impossible wine-food pairings such as lobster rolls, peanut butter and bacon sandwiches and even dog food. Surely he must know what to pair with the various foods of Rosh Hashanah.
"A Prosecco, the sparkling wine from the north of Italy, could work well since it's easy on the wallet and on the palate (the slight sweetness tends to help with 'impossible' foods to pair with wine)," Colman notes. "I like bottlings from Bisol and Col Vetoraz. I say bubbly carries the day."
So there you have it. If a sparkly, celebratory wine is versatile enough to pair with everything from black-eyed peas to beef tongue, it more than deserves to be our Wine of the Week--an honor Bisol ($20) and Col Vetoraz ($18) both now share.
What wine will you be serving to celebrate the New Year? Tell us about it below.
