Flight Savor Fare

…or summer back porch sippers.

This post is for Marilyn!

According to Lettie Teague in the Wall St. Journal, a wedding runs about $30,000 and most of that is spent on the ring, the dress and the flowers (hear that Pam?) And the wine? Lettie says she’s often wished that the centerpiece was a spit bucket instead.

But wedding wine shouldn’t be expensive or too precious. It’s hard to savor a wine properly while dancing to “Brick House.”

Lettie offers 5 tips for choosing wines for a wedding:

Taste at least 10 wines, 5 red, 5 white before choosing.

Buy a good sparkling wine but don’t waste money on Champagne. No one ever asks to see the label.

If you bring your own wine and pay a corkage fee you will almost always pay much less than if you had chosen from the house list. (Not true at Flight though. Buy multiple bottles through us for a discount, add $10 corkage fee and it’s still cheaper than buying elsewhere and bringing it in.)

Choose a wine with the widest appeal that also will go well with food. Fairly fruity, light bodied with good acidity.

Six affordable, appealing and widely available wines Lettie recommends:

2006 Monte Antico Rosso $10

2008 Inama Soave Classico $15

Roederer Estate Brut nonvintage Sparkling wine $19

2005 Château Greysac Medoc $15

2009 Spy Valley Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc $15

2009 Scholss Gobelsburg Grüner Veltliner $15