6 Fall Recipes to Cozy Up to with a Glass of Wine
Fall is warm, cozy, and perfect for those comforting meals we know and love. Today, we’ve got your favorites paired with our best red wines for your ultimate dinner experience!
This Pumpkin and Sage Soup is not only going to be delicious, it’s good for your skin, eyesight, and digestion too! Bringing you fall flavors, this soup will warm you up both in body and soul. With it’s fine tannin structure, our 2013 Sonoma Stage Pinot Noir is perfect for this creamy dish. Strike the balance between salty and sweet with these two.
Crockpots are essential kitchen items throughout the fall and winter seasons. Plus, who doesn’t love a good crockpot meal? You can toss everything in before heading to work and by the time you get home, you’ve got something delicious waiting for you. That’s what this easy roast beef is all about! It's got rich, umami flavors from the Worcestershire sauce, and you’ve got soft potatoes on the side...yum. Grab your glass of Aphrodite so you can indulge in this warm fall meal with a silky merlot to match.
Sometimes you forget to start the crockpot in the morning or you’re rushing around and time just gets away from you. For those busy days, this Smoky Black Bean Soup is perfect for an easy, fast but still warm and cozy dinner. Pour a glass of our Broken Rock Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon while you let the jalapeño, cumin, garlic, and smokiness come together. Our Cab Sauv matches this smoky soup perfectly, being a Bordeaux blend with small amounts of Cabernet Franc Merlot and Petit Verdot. The spicy meets it’s sweet counterpart with the vanilla, cola, and dark cherry notes of this red wine.
Chicken Parmesan is such a family dinner staple and so delicious. With all the heaviness fall meals can bring, we figure a Lighter Chicken Parmesan would freshen up our menu just a tad. Bonus, it only has 8 ingredients and 6 steps...you’ll love how quickly you can get this one on the dinner table (and how much extra time you’ll have to drink wine!). Chicken Parm is especially delicious with our Sonoma Stage Pinot Noir. Our Pinot is light bodied so it goes really smoothly with a yummy mozzarella!
We’re just a little obsessed with slow cooker dishes and as we start to get into fall, as it starts to get real cold, and the pumpkins and gourds start to pop up, we love this Slow Cooker Turkey Chili w/ Butternut Squash. Not only is it a cleaner dish with that turkey sausage but we’re using a seasonal produce item, Butternut Squash! Because this dish can be so light, we love our full bodied Broken Rock Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon for pairing.
Rounding out your yummy fall dinners, some of us can’t quite let summer go. That’s why we want to hold onto our favorite summer dessert, s’mores! Not just any s’mores though, Candied Bacon S’mores. We’re kicking it up a notch with these out-of-this-world, all the extra, s’mores with candied bacon! You’ll fall in love with these, especially when you pair them with our Poseidon Cabernet Sauvignon. Full bodied with notes of mocha and wild berries, the two are a match made in heaven.
Enjoy your fall meals and wine pairings for this lovely season! Snap a photo and tag us @seabirdwines! Did we miss your favorite fall meal? Tag us in your delicious dishes!
The Durbin Thanksgiving Stuffing
Sausage & Smoked Mussel Stuffing Recipe
We love our wines from the West Coast but our roots are on the East Coast. So when Thanksgiving rolls around, we love a little coastal influence on our table. Cue: Sausage & Smoked Mussel Stuffing!
We’ve had this stuffing (or do we call it dressing?) since 2011 on our table. Courtesy of Carolyn Wright at Coastal Living, this smoky, savory stuffing comes together much easier than it seems and is truly delicious.
The smoky oysters and the sausage make this a beautiful pairing for a crisp glass of Courtney’s Vineyard Chardonnay (a new release!) as well as a Pinot Noir with a little bottle age on it like our 2014 Sangiacomo Robert’s Road Pinot Noir.
Whether you’re gathering is large or small this year, we are certainly grateful for the chance to serve you Great Vines To Great Times this year, with many epic vintages to come!
Happy Thanksgiving from our Flock to Yours.
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