White wine for cooking--need suggestions.

[Jean in Wisc]

I like to use wine when poaching fish, and other recipes occasionnally call for white wine. I don't want cooking wine, but I don't know what I do want. LOL!

 

Something easy to find that even a small town grocery store would sell. Something with a good flavor for cooking but not too expensive since it is just being simmered away...

 

Thanks :-)

[Claire]

I buy 4-packs of little bottles of wine at the liquor store. I think any liquor store would have them. :) They are about $1 a bottle, and you can get red or white. Most of my recipes don't use a whole bottle, so I usually pour the rest into a glass for me while I cook. :D One bottle might be about right for poaching fish.

 

Both white wine and red wine are sold in this way. I have a few bottles of each in my pantry. They seem to keep forever as long as you don't open them. They don't have corks, by the way, but rather simple screw tops.

 

We threw away the grocery store cooking wine my dh bought. If the store is not licensed to sell liquor (and most grocery stores aren't), then the cooking wine is highly salted to prevent people from guzzling it. Aside from the extreme salt, which I hate, the quality wasn't as good as those little bottles I get from the liquor store.

[Mamagistra]

I buy 4-packs of little bottles of wine at the liquor store. I think any liquor store would have them. :) They are about $1 a bottle, and you can get red or white. Most of my recipes don't use a whole bottle, so I usually pour the rest into a glass for me while I cook. :D One bottle might be about right for poaching fish.

 

I do this, too. Our supermarkets carry these four-packs, and they are very easy to store in my spice area. :)

[Susan in IL]

Another one who does this.

[PariSarah]

If it's something that's got a little fruit to it (pork with dried fruits, say, or chicken veronique), I use a vouvray. (That's a very common, very inexpensive French wine. They have it in my little grocery store.) It's not super-sweet like a Riesling or a Gewurtz, but it's got just a little sweet to it.

 

If I want something drier, a cheap pinot grigio--italian, australian, south american.

 

Anything but chardonnay. Can't stand chardonnay.

[Kris]

I get wine in the box for cooking. Keeps the air out, so the fact that I don't use it often is no big deal. It's cheap and doesn't turn to vinegar.

[Colleen]

I tend to use whatever white I happen to have open but if you aren't a white wine drinker, just buy whatever you come across. (Though like Sarah, I'm not a chard fan so I'd vote against that unless it's your only option.)

[Guest Lorna]

I use cider (the alcoholic kind) instead of wine with mussels. It tastes just as special and is cheaper.

[Jean in Wisc]

This week has fallen apart--but I did buy some wine. The selection here is very small, but I figured out enough to get "something". LOL!

 

My mom has been in the hospital two times already this week. It would be nice if we could figure out what this is all about--can't get her into the neurologist until April. Sigh.

 

Thank you all!