Thanksgiving brings gatherings and reunions with friends, family, and loved ones, all centred around a memorable dinner experience. As everyone comes together to share home-cooked food and fine wine, it's a time to create and cherish lifelong memories.
The turkey is the signature entrée, but a beautiful table setting makes the experience all the more special. As you make your Thanksgiving plans this season, consider incorporating a touch of elegance and charm to your table setting with an assortment of wines and wine-themed accessories.
From the deep, rich colours of a good red to the sparkling hues of a crisp white, wine can inspire a table setting that is both stylish and inviting. Paired with a collection of elegant wine accessories, you have all the makings of a charming setting to dine with your family. Whether you’re hosting an intimate dinner or a festive feast, use our guide to create an inviting atmosphere for all your loved ones this season.
Set the mood with the right colour palette
The history of Thanksgiving is intimately connected with the autumn harvest, a celebration of good fortune and bountiful food collected throughout the year. Autumn is a very colourful season, and it’s only fitting that a Thanksgiving table setting shares the warm, earthy tones that immortalize the spirit of autumn.
Try to use table settings that share the bright colour palettes of autumn. Red, orange, and yellow are fitting seasonal colours for your napkins and tablecloths—also perfect compliments for a rich red wine to serve with dinner.
Maintaining the seasonality of the table setting, you can add pine cones, leaves, and even a pumpkin to capture that crisp autumn spirit. Wine bottles from your collection are great table centrepieces, adding a touch of elegance to the planned dinner ahead. Even your cutlery and napkin rings can mimic the tone of the season—there’s no shortage of colourful ideas.
Feature exquisite wine accessories
Elegant wine decanters
Many people use classic or crystal wine decanters to aerate their wines. Decanters are particularly effective at expanding upon subtle flavours and textures in red wines, which have richer, more delicious tastings unlocked by a little aeration ahead of serving.
They don’t just serve a utility function—they also make great centrepieces for the dinner table. Decanters are beautiful pieces of art that add another touch of elegance to the table setting. When red wine is allowed to breathe inside the decanter, it creates the perfect complement to your colourful Thanksgiving table setting.
Wine coasters
Thanksgiving is a rustic and elegant feast celebrated with loved ones. To help preserve the elegance of the occasion and protect your tables from spills or marks, try our selection of wine coasters.
You find coasters designed for wine glasses, or wine bottles and impressive corkscrews.
Treat the opening of every wine bottle at Thanksgiving dinner as a dramatic, existing event. Invest in a quality wine corkscrew that any sommelier would be proud to carry, and show your loved ones what a stylish love for wine truly means.
Corkscrews that have a built-in vertical lever make opening any bottle a delightful treat. They serve as some of the most powerful and effective wine accessories, so make sure you have a reliable corkscrew at home this holiday to serve your guests their favourite wines.
Choose the perfect wine glassware
No Thanksgiving is complete without a healthy serving of premium wine. Wine lovers treat collecting rare, exquisite bottles as an art form and take great pride in their work. Therefore, make sure that you serve your wine in, elegant stemware.
Each wine glass has its advantages over different wines, occasions, and celebrations. The shape of the bowl, the glass stem, and the rim are all uniquely designed to unlock the subtle flavours of specific wines.
Certain glasses are designed for red wines, others are made for white wines, and there are even glasses for sparkling champagnes. Depending on the wines you plan to serve with dinner—and even beforehand—you can stock up on the proper glasses to pair with your select wines. You can review our detailed wine glass selection guide for practical tips on how to select the best glasses for your chosen wines this holiday.
Plus, if you’re not sure of which wines to serve on Thanksgiving, check out Forbes Magazine’s detailed article on recommended wines for the holiday season.
Add to the table ambience with beautiful wine accessories
Most family Thanksgivings include the serving of wine before, during, and after dinner. Gathering around the living room, indulging in conversations about your lives—all the while sharing a bottle of fine wine—helps families reignite their bonds while welcoming the holidays.
Enhance the topics of conversation by setting elegant wine accessories throughout the room, elevating the atmosphere with a touch of class. Best of all is that you can personalize certain accessories for each of your guests ahead of Thanksgiving Day—perhaps create elegant gift bags to show your loved ones just how much you cherish their presence in your life.
Corkscrews are perfect gifts for the wine lovers in your family, and you can engrave their names onto the corkscrews to truly personalize the gift. These personal touches transform a lovely dinner into meaningful, thoughtful gifts for family.
Wine accessories aren’t just great gifts for loved ones; they’re also graceful additions to any table setting. For example, the Coravin wine preservation system is not only a stylish addition to any dinner table, but it also helps preserve the contents of your wine bottles for longer periods of time.
This way, you don’t have to force your guests to finish bottles or risk spoiling the rest of the wine. The Coravin wine preservation system seals the cork and protects the wine. You can learn more about the benefits of the Coravin preservation system and how to use your chosen accessory by reading our helpful Coravin wine preservation guide.
Even pair desserts with the ambience of the season
No Thanksgiving dinner is complete without a rich dessert to serve your guests. Pumpkin or apple pies are signature Thanksgiving desserts, often served with a side of ice cream to sweeten the experience.
You can also offer apples or other fruits as lighter, healthier alternatives to a rich dessert. Brightly coloured fruits also match the seasonal ambience, adding a sweet finish to the Thanksgiving experience.
You can slice up some fine cheeses and lighter meats while serving them up on a lovely charcuterie board for a different take on “dessert” Make sure you also have a proper cheese, bread, and spread knife set to serve your cheeses and breads with style and grace.
Plus, you can serve lighter, fruitier wines to go with dessert—a perfect end to a wonderful dinner. If you don’t have proper dessert wine glasses, you can stock up on a collection today and be all prepared to host your family this Thanksgiving.
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