Pairing Wine with Vegetables
A Toast to this Season’s Harvest

I'm an unabashed vegetable lover and even on Thanksgiving, meat is just an accompaniment to my veggies. This year, instead of matching your wine to your Turkey, choose a variety that will bring out the best in the vegetables you grew and stored for the harvest festival. Here's a primer I pulled together with tips on how to pair wines with different vegetable preparations. There's also a nice search tool from Wined In that will let you plug in any food and get wine suggestions. Here are a couple of starter tips:

1. Wine pairs better with cooked vegetables than with raw vegetables


2. Roasted and charred vegetables pick up the tannins in red wine

Photo: © Marie Iannott