I'm making a corned beef and cabbage dinner (often known as a "New England Boiled dinner") and am a loss as to what wine to serve. My mother made the meal when I was a kid, but they never drank wine with it. Thanks.

Hi

Corned beef and cabbage ~ I think we used to have something like that when I was little. I can't imagine drinking wine with it though.

Perhaps, as it's beef, something red, but a rich red wine and corned beef just don't sound right to me.

Welcome to the forum, Susanvw!

It's going to be interesting to see what the wine experts say on this one! I love corned beef and cabbage, but I'm low-brow enough that I'd probably have a beer with it.

I've had a look on the Internet, and it seems that American corned beef isn't the same as ours (UK) ~ which might help a bit.

Here are some items on corned beef, followed by some wine suggestions ~ though some suggest beer or stout!

Corned beef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef
corned beef with cabbage
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/CORNED-BEEF-WITH-CABBAGE-241775
Crockpot Corned Beef and Cabbage
http://www.celtnet.org.uk/recipes/miscellaneous/fetch-recipe.php?rid=misc-corned-beef-cabage
Corned Beef and Cabbage
http://www.toweroflondontour.com/recipes/recipes/vegetables/corned-beef-and-cabbage/
Corned Beef & Cabbage - The Feeding of A Myth
http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/2Kitch/aCBeefCabge.html

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Wine with Corned Beef and Cabbage
http://corkdork.typepad.com/corkdork/2006/03/wine_with_corne.html
Corned Beef, and Cabbage, and . . . Wine?
http://www.tablewine.com/archiv62.htm
What type of wine goes with corned beef and cabbage?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_type_of_wine_goes_with_corned_beef_and_cabbage
Corned Beef and Cabbage Wines
http://www.anotherwineblog.com/archives/79
Corned Beef, Cabbage and Wine
http://www.hawaiidiner.com/articles/article.php?article=151
What kind of wine would you serve with corned beef and cabbage?
http://www.thewinesnob.com/advice.htm

Good research, but more fun to talk about it, IMO. No offense intended, PDM.

I needed to check it out, because the corned beef we have here wouldn't go with wine, so I thought that it might be different.

I also thought that this might be a dish with Irish roots, so I wanted to find that out too.

I have found a page, saying that UK and US corned beef are, indeed, the same:

The thing is, ours tends to come in tins!

This is what we get:
http://www.britishfooddirect.com/images/44-137-fb-cornedBeef340.jpg

A corned beef recipe ~ hash:
http://www.4ormore.co.uk/images/cbh.jpg

This is what you get:
http://www.britishcornershop.co.uk/images/large/TJ0510.jpg

Corned Beef & Cabbage
http://beerinfood.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/corned-beef.jpg
http://www.tastyisland.net/images/mcmackin_corned_beef_pot700.jpg
http://www.mccormick.com/assets/225_1415_cornedBeef.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2181/2341507821_1a30486e18.jpg?v=0

My aunt, though, makes absolutely delicious corned beef pasty.
Since I've stopped eating beef, and wheat disagrees with me, I shouldn't eat it, but I'm guessing that, next time I visit, I might just give in.

I agree with Carl, beer would go better than wine, preferably Guinness or a good old UD microbrew Stout or Porter

So the local wine aficianados, desperate for some new exchange, pounce. Been a long time since a post here (in wines) saw this kind of action.

For me, stout doesn't work at all with CB&C. A nice lager or ale yes, stout and porter, no.

I like a nice dry but fruity Riesling with CB&C. I think the apple which so often shows with this wine is a nice complement. Maybe even a Kabinet Riesling.

from elsewhere in the world and in profile, perhaps an off-dry Chenin Blanc from Vouvray. Not sweet, I don't think, just off-dry. Ask at your retailer; make sure they know and are not passing 'hearsay'. Not US, not South Africa.

Just to mix things up, what about a sparkling Blanc de Noir?

"Crisp" should be our watchword for a wine to go with this dish.

Yep, we "pounced," and as usual, you put us in our place, Brom.

But it is interesting to read your input on this.

You and me both, hon... Actually, I keep hearing that certain beers are no longer considered lowbrow, but that could just be happy propaganda from my brother-in-law who runs a brewery (braumeister?)!

Brom has motivated me to find a Blanc de Noir; oxymoronic beverages sound interesting!