With apologies to Gary Vaynerchuck and the guys at Wine Library TV, the Dads suggest a few affordable wines for holiday guzzling. What wine goes best with Turkey? Pinot Noir? Chardonnay? Boone's Farm? Bring your plastic cups as they crack the twist-top on another round. Learn which wine bottle is perfect for your holiday party as Daddy Clay and Daddy Brad conduct their own wine tasting. DadLabs Ep. 218 The Lounge.

Daddy Brad: Now if you’re able to host a holiday gathering at your house and you don’t have to drive, one great way to stay sane at Thanksgiving is to have a little celebratory glass of wine. We’ve asked our resident wine snob, Daddy Clay to talk to us today about holiday wines.
Daddy Clay: Now a lot of people say it’s tough to buy wines at Thanksgiving because it’s difficult to pair wine with food like a turkey and dressing. But I think this is a great opportunity to try wines that you’ve really never had before, not the usual kind-of thing. The first thing you need to do is go out to your local wine shop not some chain. You go to a place like the Whip In here in Austin, right. It’s a fantastic place. The guys there are going to help you pick out a wine that pairs well with that food and perhaps show you something you haven’t tried before. A great example of that is our first wine. You know what, first I’ve gotta say, my apologies to Gary Vanderchuck and the Wine Library T.V., sorry guys we’re just like butchering your whole deal right here.
Daddy Brad: Sorry dude.
Daddy Clay: Sorry about that.
Daddy Brad: They don’t drink it in plastic cups. I don’t think.
Daddy Clay: They do not. Okay, so the first wine here, this is a Torrontes. Now is an Argentinean grape starting to become popular here. This is a Crios. Everything that we’re gonna taste here today it’s okay to drink out of plastic ups, nothing there that’s too fancy. Nothing that’s going to be over $15 or $16 dollars.
Daddy Brad: I have a really discriminating palette you know.
Daddy Clay: Cause in my family the kind of way people drink wine; this is perfectly good. It’s bright and fruity, it’s gonna be, you know similar in style to a, maybe a Pinot Grigio, a good one. Maybe more like a Sauvignon Blanc, something like that. Light and fruity, this is going to go with turkey really well.
Daddy Brad: Yeah, I like turkey. Crios right, Crios.
Daddy Clay: That’s a Crios and our second wine, this is just a good old-fashioned inexpensive Bogle Chardonnay. These guys make almost every variety of wine, you can always depend on the guys to give you a solid value and a good glass of wine. This is just a good old California Chardonnay.
Daddy Brad: Old school.
Daddy Clay: Easy drinking, under $10 bucks. Your relatives are gonna guzzle this out of plastic cups and be happy campers. Cheers.
Daddy Brad: Cheers. Yeah I like that.
Daddy Clay: More oaky, tastes a little more wood, some more kind of tropical flavors.
Daddy Brad: Oaky? Like from Oklahoma?
Daddy Clay: It’s fine, good stuff, good juice. Not that at all. You’re an idiot. Okay our last wine and I think if you’re gonna choose a red wine to go with turkey, a Pinot Noir is a good way to go. It’s a little bit a lighter style red. This is a Grayson. This is a good quality wine, nothing too fancy here. Just a nice light style, you can see from the color it’s gonna be, this is not some big fat Cabernet or Red Zin. It’s not going to overwhelm the flavors of the turkey, but still if you like drinking red wine with dinner, which I do. I drink red wine with anything, fish, whatever, turkey, you bet.
Daddy Brad: Yeah, that’s good. I like that. Red.
Daddy Clay: So with apologies to Gary Vanderchuck, these are our ideas for Thanksgiving wines. Cheers.
Daddy Brad: Yeah, cheers. So you know if you get to stay home have a little glass of wine. Take the edge off you know because you’ll be a lot less likely to blow a gasket when Junior fills up grandma’s purse with giblet gravy.
Daddy Clay: It’s happened.
Daddy Brad: Yeah.
Daddy Clay: I’ve seen it, sticky.
Daddy Brad: Cheers.