What wine to pair with White Castle?

Bruce_Leiser_owitz · February 23, 2012, 12:16am

Errrp.

Bruce

Roberto_Rogness · February 23, 2012, 12:42am

Love this part:

Hours went by this day with no wine orders. “It isn’t Bordeaux, it’s Indiana,” said Dave Dore, the regional manager, who was passing through. A man sat nearby behind a pile of cheeseburgers. Mr. Dore called, “Some wine with your White Castle?” The man said, "Sliders would go better with Wild Turkey and Peppermint Schnapps."

Jim_V_a_n_P_e_l_t · February 23, 2012, 1:03am

Castle Rock Zin was the thought that came to my mind reading the question of the subject line.

J_a_y_H_a_c_k · February 23, 2012, 1:45am

“. . . Columbus, Ohio, the company’s hometown . . .” Why am I not surprised. GO BLUE.

chris_newport · February 23, 2012, 9:15pm

Champagne.

Humberto_Dorta · February 23, 2012, 9:40pm

2007 cdp…from magnum

T_Altmayer · February 23, 2012, 9:46pm

I agree with the Wild Turkey and Peppermint Schnapps, at least you have a chance of that combination of killing your taste buds sufficiently that you won’t care what you eat. White Castle is dreadful stuff.

Lou_Recupero · February 23, 2012, 10:00pm

My favorite was this:

“I find that people who know wine will choose the Moscato,” said the counterman, Ryan Parrott.

Because people that know wine, are ordering the Moscato version of the Barefoot Merlot (the only wine specified)

David_K_o_l_i_n · February 23, 2012, 10:03pm

K_John_Joseph · February 23, 2012, 10:29pm

Humberto_Dorta · February 23, 2012, 10:31pm

wtf is that? four loko?

jcoley3 · February 24, 2012, 5:07am

Duh. Black Tower Rivaner. That way you can have the garbage cuisine chess match between black and white such a pairing richly deserves.

Craig_G · February 24, 2012, 6:19am

Chateau (Cheval) Blanc. Maybe in half bottles.

Roy_Hersh · February 25, 2012, 1:48am

Root beer of course.

Dale_Williams · February 25, 2012, 3:24am

What is corkage fee? How are the stems?

John_Gonzalez · February 25, 2012, 7:52am

A couple years ago we had wome couples over for what turned out to be a fun night. I brought home bags of White Manna burgers from an impossible-to-get-into slider place in Hackensack New Jersey for a Bellybombs and Bordeaux night. Granted, I then spiffed up the burgers with some fun stuff like seared foie gras, slow roasted tomatoes and a Maui onion confit, but everyone had a blast pairing them up with some high end bordeaux, including a bottle of 1986 Lafite…which I can reconfirm won’t be ready to drink in my lifetime.

John_Tan · February 26, 2012, 9:00am

Make that a '61 hehe !!

Jorge_Henriquez · February 26, 2012, 12:14pm

So, Rosé?

TimF · February 26, 2012, 1:07pm

So funny. I went to that particular WC many times when I was at Purdue. During none of my visits would it have been appropriate to drink more alcohol.

I’m a little disappointed they didn’t get a comment from the professor who is teaching the wine appreciation course at Purdue now. That was a very popular, albeit very difficult, course when I was a student.

As to the pairing: I love new world style Pinot noir with fast food burgers but WC is a different animal because it is cooked with so many onions. I’m not sure anything would go well with them except maybe a roll of toilet paper…