Serving wine with food!
There are some basic rules: red wine with red meat, white wine with fish and white meat. These still largely apply, but happily they are not binding.
The people who laid down the rules had never thought of drinking wine with Chinese food, for example.
Here are the other main points to remember:
• Match not only the flavour of the wine to the flavour of the food, but the intensity of flavour and weight or body of the wine as well. A heavy,
alcoholic wine will not suit a delicate dish.
• Try to match the acidity of a dish to the acidity of the wine. Acid flavours like lemon or tomato need acidity in the wine.
• Richness in a dish can either be cut through, with an acidic wine, or matched with a rich one. Either way, the wine should be full in flavour so as
not to taste lean and mean.
• Red wine is traditionally drunk with cheese, but white is generally better (especially with blue cheese, although port with Stilton is
traditional).
• Pastry dulls the palate, softening the flavours of the other ingredients with it. Go for a more subtle wine than you might otherwise have chosen.
• Contrary to the old adage that white wine should be served with fish, the red grapes Pinot Noir and Gamay can go with certain types of fish, such as
salmon and red mullet.
• There is a great deal of sense in the old rule of white wine before red, young wine before old and light before heavy. The palate adjusts more
easily to wines served in this order.
• Consider sweetness when pairing wines with food. Sweet food makes dry wine taste lean and acidic.
• If a dish has sauce, then the flavours of the sauce should be taken into account.
The final arbiter is your own palate. If you like a glass of Chardonnay with your venison, then go ahead and enjoy it!
I prefer red wine & drink it with all food & even without food, it is the 21st century so please yourself & enjoy.
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