Is there any holiday more food-centered than Thanksgiving? Even if you\u2019re not into spending all day watching football and parades, most everyone gets together with family and friends to share a good meal. And where there\u2019s good food there should always be good wine.<\/p>\n
With the Thanksgiving holiday just around the corner, why not get a jump on planning what you\u2019re going to do and serve on this annual gastronomic binge? I\u2019ll give you some wine-related suggestions both today and over the next two weeks that should help keep your turkey day relatively stress free.<\/p>\n
Let me start by proposing a firsthand experience in Eastern Washington\u2019s wine country that may give you some ideas while at the same time contributing to a good cause.<\/p>\n
Wine Yakima Valley and Northwest Harvest have partnered together to help feed the hungry this Thanksgiving season by offering a \u201cTaste to Fight Hunger\u201d ticket.<\/p>\n
The $30 pass gets you waived tasting fees, reserve and specialty tastings, and special discounts at over 40 Yakima Valley wineries. All ticket sale profits will be donated to Northwest Harvest.<\/p>\n
Tickets are on sale now at participating wineries and on line at wineyakimavalley.org. You can use them prior to the holiday to select the perfect wine for your Thanksgiving feast, and they\u2019ll also be honored during the post-holiday weekend from November 29 through December 1.<\/p>\n
If you decide to go, here\u2019s my take on a few Yakima Valley wineries you may want to visit:<\/p>\n
Airfield Estates \u2013 Winemaker Marcus Miller offers a ton of choices, particularly full-bodied reds and whites.<\/p>\n
AntoLin Cellars and Gilbert Cellars \u2013 Two excellent wineries located close to accommodations in the heart of downtown Yakima.<\/p>\n
Chinook Wine \u2013 One of the Valley\u2019s originals with solid, consistently good semillon, sauvignon blanc, and cabernet franc.<\/p>\n
Cultura Wine<\/strong> \u2013 Husband and wife winemakers Tad and Sarah Fewel make it a pleasure to visit this red wine lover\u2019s dream winery.<\/p>\n Severino Cellars \u2013 Located just off the freeway in Zillah, I\u2019m a big fan of their nicely priced red wine blend.<\/p>\n Southard Winery \u2013 A must-try winery in the town of Selah that I\u2019ll feature in depth in early December.<\/p>\n Two Mountain Winery<\/strong> \u2013 Another Zillah winery that just keeps getting better and better. Try the 2010 Reserve Cabernet Franc <\/strong>with lip-smacking red cherry flavors, crushed herbs and a hint of dark chocolate. In a word: delicious.<\/p>\n Treveri Cellars \u2013 The best and most reasonably priced sparkling wines produced in Washington\u2026period.<\/p>\n Next week: white wine selections for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is there any holiday more food-centered than Thanksgiving? Even if you\u2019re not into spending all day watching football and parades, most everyone gets together with family and friends to share a good meal. And where there\u2019s good food there should always be good wine. With the Thanksgiving holiday just around the corner, why not get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}