Coq au vin & wine?

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I'm going to attempt to make Coq au vin this weekend. I got all of the fixins' except the wine. I am not a wine drinker (gives me headaches) so I do not know anything about the different types. My recipe says, "burgundy" wine. Is that just a red wine? I went to the wine section of Wally World and was overwhelmed with two aisles of choices...

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[miss_jayne]

Elton Brown's 'Good Eats' recipe for coq au vin....he had a wine expert tell the right kind...try Food Networks website....

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

That's what inspired me in the first place! They said burgundy and another name...but they used some spendy stuff, didn't they?

 

[miss_jayne]

no, use a pinot noir. i think they said they used a very medium priced bottle.

here's the recipe....
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/coq-au-vin-recipe/index.html

 

[JennsPeeps]

Alton - lord bless'im - says you can use a cheap bottle and drink the nice bottle. The word according to Alton is that the point of cooking with wine is to the the fruitiness of the wine and that the subtleties of a fine wine are cooked out.

So sayeth Alton.

Thanks be to Food Network.

Amen.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I tweaked the recipe a little bit and it was REALLY good--rich but GOOD!

 

[miss_jayne]

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awesome! coq au vin is supposed to be very rich. you must of done it right! any pointers?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I used my crock pot since we didn't have a dutch oven. I also used two cans of tomato paste (one in the marinade/cooking) and one in the sauce. I also added two TBS of flour/butter to the sauce towards the end to thicken it up.

 

[greyfields]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=107998

The rule with wine -- Never cook with a wine you wouldn't drink. Very often the price per bottle will dictate the quality. Cooking does not make a cheap wine taste better, it's actually opposite as the flavors get more concentrated with teh reduction.

A Cabarnet, Merlot or Blend of the two is equivelant to a Bourdeaux. Washington makes excellent reds, so anything you see in the $10-15 per bottle price range at your grocery store should work.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

The bottle I got was $12 and it turned out very good.