...hmm. You may have a point there; I believe the hostess is serving red wine with dinner. I habitually default to white these days because I have issues with sulfites, but since I also have issues with mushrooms... hmm. Then again, if it's a cream gravy, red wine and cream sauce just sounds weird to me. It will probably come down to what's lying about in the house for wine, and whether Kai puts all the creamy stuff available into the mashed potatoes.

I did a brief online search for veggie gravy recipes, and yeah, most of 'em were wallpaper paste. I was shocked and horrified, and had to get off my bum and do some serious searches (since we just unpacked the cookbooks).