It shows hints of everything that makes white Burgundy wine so great - ripe fruit, delicate floral and stony aromas, and inner layers of texture that fade in and out. Meadow Creek Dairy Grayson, paried with 2006 Pierre Frick Sylvaner Cuvée Classique , $13, Fruit of the Vines Imports. Frick's bone-dry Sylvaner is great with this cheese.

I'll be pouring 2005 Boxler Sylvaner and 2007 Clos Roche Blanche Touraine Gamay at my Thanksgiving dinner this year. All good bloggers are supposed to tell you about the wines they will open for Thanksgiving. First of all Did you know that wine can be corked even if it is sealed with something other than cork? It, oddly, was also corked.

I'm sure that there is a river of Alsace plonk out there, as there is in Burgundy, the Loire Valley, and in every other great wine region. cold December night, sausages, real sauerkraut, beef stew, cabbage soup, goulash, anything like that with a shimmering glass of Sylvaner? Wines of the Alsace.who knew? Do you meet in secret?

2005 Domaine Weinbach Sylvaner Clos des Capuchins R é serve , price unknown but about $20, Vineyard Brands Imports. As can be expected of an Alsace wine made using Sylvaner, this wine is very mineral. This is not a post about wines that are chaste. This has nothing to do with the new Republican Vice Presidential nominee. You decide.

Since I never seem to be able to write here about all of the tasting that interests me (and that potentially would interest you), here is a roundup of interesting wines from the past month: Burgundy (yes - I still drink Burgundy wines, and still love them the most!) 2002 Sylvan Cathiard Vosne Romanee , $25 (secondary market).