Looking for Taco Truck Party Wine Recommendations

[Jason_L]

Bordelet Poire Authentique or Sydre Argelette or Patrick Bottex Bugey-Cerdon “La Cueille” NV or Allimant-Laugner Cremant d’Alsace Rose

Theo Minges Riesling halbtrocken or Albariño

Jean Paul Brun Beaujolais Terres Dorees l’Ancien or Gerard Mugneret Bourgogne Passetoutgrain or Pithon-Paillé Anjou Rouge

If you have some time and want to support a Berserker, Stereophonic Wine has The Dream of Spring (2020) GSM blend, Endless River (2020) Gruner Veltliner, and Blue Desert (2020) Albarino that should all go really well with your party.

All great suggestions and I’m flattered to be included in the list! Nate, if you end up wanting to use our wines, DM and I’ll set you up with a Berserker-only price. (Same goes for anyone else reading this.) Thank you Mark and Anton for the love!

[Chris_Seiber]

Zinfandel is a great choice both in terms of going well with taco truck food and being a popular cocktail wine for the party (remember, most of the wine won’t get sipped back and forth between bites of taco, it will just be a drink as people hang out and interact). There are lots of good choices in your price range that are easy to find. Turley Juvenile would be an outstanding choice.

Also, think about who your audience is. If it’s a bunch of WBers, then you can geek out with obscure choices, but in the more likely event it’s regular folks, look for things that work adequately with the food but mostly are just thing that regular people like to drink. Modern Spanish wines would work better than old-school oxidative type ones, zinfandel is a great choice, Super Tuscans, shiraz.

[Nate_Rulis]

Bordelet Poire Authentique or Sydre Argelette or Patrick Bottex Bugey-Cerdon “La Cueille” NV or Allimant-Laugner Cremant d’Alsace Rose

Theo Minges Riesling halbtrocken or Albariño

Jean Paul Brun Beaujolais Terres Dorees l’Ancien or Gerard Mugneret Bourgogne Passetoutgrain or Pithon-Paillé Anjou Rouge

If you have some time and want to support a Berserker, Stereophonic Wine has The Dream of Spring (2020) GSM blend, Endless River (2020) Gruner Veltliner, and Blue Desert (2020) Albarino that should all go really well with your party.

All great suggestions and I’m flattered to be included in the list! Nate, if you end up wanting to use our wines, DM and I’ll set you up with a Berserker-only price. (Same goes for anyone else reading this.) Thank you Mark and Anton for the love!

DM sent! And thank you everyone for the suggestions, they are all greatly appreciated!

[Kris_Patten]

I love Lambrusco with tacos.

Roberto?

He didn’t turn me on to it, but I do recall it was his answer to most questions…or Valtellina.

[Uli_K]

Adventurous pick for a red:
2019 Bruma Plan B Tinto, Valle de Guadalupe

It’s a Mexican wine, so even people who wouldn’t have chosen it themselves, will probably appreciate the pairing.

+1 for Valle de Guadalupe, Syrah from Solar Fortún.

[Mattstolz]

I like Mouvedre and tacos. especially D&R (or extradimensional) if you’ve got enough to spare for a party

[Richard_Albert]

A tamer Cotes Du Rhone might work as well.

[Erica_O_r_r]

Funny how people lean to Spain, but if this is a Mexican taco truck the flavors are totally different than Spanish food. I would use as many whites and sparklers as possible, as the additions like cabbage, guacamole, salsa, etc tend to match better with whites. We’ve found that the best reds are lighter, more acidic ones like Ploussard and Bourgogne Rouge, and we had a Durin Rossese a couple of weeks ago that was really good with carnitas. But clean, crisp whites (think Margarita-type flavors!) are the best match…SBs/Sancerres, low oak Chards, and drier Rieslings, Pinot Blancs, Sylvaners and Alto Adige/Friuli whites can work well, too. You’re not just matching the meats, but the overall flavor profile, including spice. Anything with higher alcohol/ripeness will just taste hot and flat.

Yes I was thinking the same thing - at the winery we eat a lot of taco truck lunches and I particularly love the pairing with low end young Donnhoff. We have access to a lot of ice cold Columbia Valley Sauv blanc, Grenache blanc, unoaked Chard, fresh Rose, and… (shameless plug) my Chenin - these are all pairings I can personally vouch for. Sparkling Riesling can be superfun, too (we did this last Friday with Wild Type). I’m less familiar with Greek whites but my sense is that would be delish here too. I don’t want to be “that guy” to veto popping open champagne, but I feel like it’s hard to appreciate its delicacy in this instance… And if you have to serve red, for sure I would vote for something unoaked and low alc.

All of this to say - maybe I use way more hot sauce than y’all recommending mourvedre, southern rhone, spanish oaky tannic reds ???

Nate Rulis -I hope you keep us posted as to what wines worked for your party! Sounds fun.

[Tom_G_l_a_s_g_o_w]

Funny how people lean to Spain, but if this is a Mexican taco truck the flavors are totally different than Spanish food. I would use as many whites and sparklers as possible, as the additions like cabbage, guacamole, salsa, etc tend to match better with whites. We’ve found that the best reds are lighter, more acidic ones like Ploussard and Bourgogne Rouge, and we had a Durin Rossese a couple of weeks ago that was really good with carnitas. But clean, crisp whites (think Margarita-type flavors!) are the best match…SBs/Sancerres, low oak Chards, and drier Rieslings, Pinot Blancs, Sylvaners and Alto Adige/Friuli whites can work well, too. You’re not just matching the meats, but the overall flavor profile, including spice. Anything with higher alcohol/ripeness will just taste hot and flat.

Yes I was thinking the same thing - at the winery we eat a lot of taco truck lunches and I particularly love the pairing with low end young Donnhoff. We have access to a lot of ice cold Columbia Valley Sauv blanc, Grenache blanc, unoaked Chard, fresh Rose, and… (shameless plug) my Chenin - these are all pairings I can personally vouch for. Sparkling Riesling can be superfun, too (we did this last Friday with Wild Type). I’m less familiar with Greek whites but my sense is that would be delish here too. I don’t want to be “that guy” to veto popping open champagne, but I feel like it’s hard to appreciate its delicacy in this instance… And if you have to serve red, for sure I would vote for something unoaked and low alc.

All of this to say - maybe I use way more hot sauce than y’all recommending mourvedre, southern rhone, spanish oaky tannic reds ???

Nate Rulis -I hope you keep us posted as to what wines worked for your party! Sounds fun.

No hot sauce for me, but I prefer your wine choices over red.

BTW, you should note you’re ITB in your sig.

[GregT]

So what did you end up with?

We do the taco truck at least once a week and I find that whatever wine I feel like drinking usually pairs pretty well. For the pastor, sometimes they put some pineapple in it, depending on where you get it, and that calls for something fruity IMO. The asada usually goes with Cab or lately I’ve been drinking Portuguese wines and Syrahs, but I squirt lime all over it so I don’t know that the matches are made in heaven. But it doesn’t really matter most of the time because next week we’ll just open something different. What I’ve never done is opened a white or a sparkling wine - it’s always reds. And mostly a bigger style.

[GregT]

So what did you end up with?

We do the taco truck at least once a week since there are so many around, and I find that whatever wine I feel like drinking usually pairs pretty well. For the pastor, sometimes they put some pineapple in it, depending on where you get it, and that calls for something fruity IMO. The asada usually goes with Cab or lately I’ve been drinking Portuguese wines and Syrahs, but I squirt lime all over it so I don’t know that the matches are made in heaven. But it doesn’t really matter most of the time because next week we’ll just open something different. What I’ve never done is opened a white or a sparkling wine - it’s always reds. And mostly a bigger style. Then there’s one lady who makes her pastor differently - I asked her about it and she said she throws in some carnitas to brighten it up because that’s what she likes. So we never plan because who knows what we’re going to end up with anyway.

[Nathan_Smyth]

Sparkling whites with no residual sugar.

Depending on your budget, outright grower Champagne.

At a lesser budget, Cremant d’Alsace or Riesling Sekt.

The perfect wine would be the Peneca Rebula Sparkling Ribolla Gialla, from Slovenia, but it seems to have dwindled down to approximately zero distribution in the United States [which is a tragedy].

The list of red wines which would complement flavors like cilantro & jalapeno is very, very short [and possibly non-existent].

Maybe the 1996 Rene Engel Grands Echezeaux, if you had a spare $5000.

[Nate_Rulis]

Nate Rulis -I hope you keep us posted as to what wines worked for your party! Sounds fun.

Thanks again for everyone’s input. Party is coming up this Saturday and here’s what I’ve landed on (in addition to beer & mixed drinks):

• Sparkling: Meinklang Prosa
  Whites: Stereophonic Blue Desert Albarino & Ovum Old Love
  Reds: Swick Vegas on Acid Cinsault & Stereophonic Starblanket

Shoutout to Jason for putting together a shipment of Stereophonic wines and getting them to me so quickly!

I’ll let you know how everything goes over.