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Randall Murray: How to pick the best wine for Thanksgiving

Expert selects several bottles serve with your holiday meal

Randall Murray has found an Italian stalwart wine that will cope nicely with beef or lamb. It’s Avignonesi Desiderio Cortona Merlot 2011. It’s a broad-shouldered blend of merlot and cabernet sauvignon from several vineyards in the Cortona district of Tuscany.

1104WINE-desiderio no vintage — Randall Murray has found an Italian stalwart wine that will cope nicely with beef or lamb. It’s Avignonesi Desiderio Cortona Merlot 2011. It’s a broad-shouldered blend of merlot and cabernet sauvignon from several vineyards in the Cortona district of Tuscany.

OK, OK, already. I know it’s November. That means Thanksgiving, and that means wine recommendations.