Super Bowl Wine Suggestions from Fred Tasker
Miami Herald wine columnist Fred Tasker suggests wine for Super Bowl!!!!!
Try serving wine at a tailgate party or while watching the big game on your 42-inch flat-screen
and your average football fan is likely to call you an effete snob. And then they’ll go back to guzzling their wan, tasteless light beer.
How do you get around this? Serve manly, muscular wines.
If you’re a Saints fan, you might be cooking spicy Cajun barbecue shrimp
laced with garlic and cayenne.
As for Colts fans, I
Here are a couple of wines that can stand up to a 400-pound lineman.
ø‚2007 Mettler Family Vineyards “Epicenter” Lodi Old-Vine Zinfandel: A perfect match
for spicy food, this is huge, with 15.6 percent alcohol. It’s big and warm and rich, with black raspberry and
spicy black pepper flavors and big but ripe tannins.
$25.
ø‚2007 Albarino Brandal by Adegas D’Altamira,
The Galicians of northwest