Food and Wine Pairing
MATCHING WINE WITH FOOD
Few culinary subjects arouse so much fear as selecting the right wine for dinner. It used to be simple: “Red wine with meat; white wine with fish” was the adage that everyone adopted. Then journalists and sommeliers (the people in fancy restaurants who help select wine) started to get more creative and introduced new twists on this age-old formula. With the recent proliferation of different grape varieties and new wineries or brands, picking the right wine suddenly became much more complicated.
Let’s start by saying something that should make you feel a lot better: There are no right answers. Experiment to your heart’s content. Pairing wine with food is not so much a science as an art, and as with every art, there is room for disagreement. Everyone has different ideas about which wines go with which foods - or vice versa. It’s largely a matter of taste, and as the saying goes, there is no arguing about taste.