Help with a white wine recommendation!

Hmmm... perhaps not specific enough, but I don't know what your local stores stock. If you can go have a look and report back what your local stores have from the following classes, this list will nail down a specific suggestion quite easily:

Oregon Pinot Gris New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc California Pinot Gris

Dana

Wow!! Amy, are you sure that they aren't pulling a joke on you? You've been given three foods that are notoriously hard to match with *any* wine and which don't generally favor the same wine.

OK, on to specifics. Eggs are a wine-killer, by and large. Full bodied white wines do the best with them IMO. Fruit salad has the twin problems of acidity and sweetness. Here I think an off-dry but acidic white wine would be best. For the chocolate torte, I'd try to steer the crowd on to coffee. As an all-around decent choice I'd try perhaps a demi-sec Champagne (from France) or, if you can't locate one, an Extra Dry Champagne. You should have a number of choices in your price range. It still won't go with the chocolate torte, but the wine-savvy folk could switch to another beverage and the clueless just carry on with the Champagne. Another decent choice might be a Pinot Gris from Alsace, the more powerful the better. In all cases, however, you're really trying to minimize the damage more than achieve a good match.

HTH Mark Lipton

I'll bet it's not that difficult, Mark. My intuition is that Amy basically can't lose with crowd-pleasing, fruit-driven white.

Dana

Prosecco Bi!!

I'd go for any Napa valley chardonnay reserve 20-50$ you could find, which at least would a great sipper between eating, or Ferrari Brut Rose for curiosity effect.

Your recommendation was a bit late! Graham

Oh, haha, someone else bumped it though :)