# What kind of wine should I bring?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 27, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-wine-should-i-bring/139064 "2002-11-27T06:26:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-wine-should-i-bring/139064/21 "2002-11-27T23:47:10Z")

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I like a nice **Beaujolais** with turkey. Beringer makes a good one that’s only about $7.00 per bottle. Beaujolais is a light-bodied fruity wine, which makes it good with a “game” bird like turkey. (Think of how good cranberries go with turkey! 🙂 ) I’m bringing three bottles to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.

There was a parody of the “Wear Sunscreen” riff called **“Don’t Drink [the?] Zinfandel”**. I wish I could find it, because it’s very funny.

If you’re set on whites, don’t ask me. I don’t prefer white wine.

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**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-wine-should-i-bring/139064/22 "2002-11-28T03:43:55Z")

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Do you mean _white_ zinfandel? There’s nothing wrong with a real Zinfandel.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-wine-should-i-bring/139064/23 "2002-11-28T04:27:36Z")

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> [@](#):
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> There was a parody of the “Wear Sunscreen” riff called **“Don’t Drink [the?] Zinfandel”**. I wish I could find it, because it’s very funny.

Ah. Here it is:

> [@](#):
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> _ **Don’t Drink White Zinfandel** _
> 
> \*\*Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99:
> 
> Don’t drink white zinfandel.
> 
> Even if you like it. \*\*  
> If I could offer you only one tip for the future,this would be it. The fact that drinking white zin causes individuals to earn irreversible reputations for bad taste has been proven by sociologists the world over.
> 
> The rest of my advice, on the other hand, has no basis more reliable than chain e-mail sent to me when I really should have been working. I will dispense this advice to you now.
> 
> \*\*Enjoy the power and beauty of your virility. \*\*  
> Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your virility until you’re sucking down Viagara like a multi-vitamin. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at your sexual prowess and it’ll hit you in a way that you can’t grasp now – how it’s not so bad to come too early and how fabulous it is to come at all.
> 
> &c., &c., &c…

(Too long to post the whole thing.)

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-wine-should-i-bring/139064/24 "2002-11-28T04:28:45Z")

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Oops. [url=“[http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6271/kurtnew.html](http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6271/kurtnew.html)”]Here’s the actual link.

:o

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-wine-should-i-bring/139064/25 "2002-11-28T04:29:53Z")

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**DAMMIT!!!**

[Here’s the actual link](http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6271/kurtnew.html).

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**Author:** ![sleeplessinseattle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@sleeplessinseattle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeplessinseattle)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-wine-should-i-bring/139064/26 "2002-11-28T19:45:34Z")

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Thanks for all of the suggestions everyone.

Because of time constraints I wasn’t able to get to a wine boutique yesterday so I’ll have to try to pick up something at the grocery store.

I’ll let you know how it turned out.

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