How To Pairing Food And Wine

Wine pairing is the process of pairing food dishes with wine to enhance the dining experience. Great food and wine pairing creates a balance between the ingredients of a dish and the taste of a wine.

Since food and wine pairing can get complex we are gonna keep it simple with the basics to make things easier to grasp. Now for those just getting started learning about pairing wines with food. Below we are going to get you started with 9 tried and true methods that produce consistently great pairings.

Your wine should be more acidic than the food.
The wine should be sweeter than the food.
The flavor intensity of the wine should be the same as the food.
Red wines pair best with bold flavored meats (Red Meats).
White wines pair best with light intensity meats (fish or chicken).
Bitter wines are best balanced with fat (red wines).
It is better to match the wine with the sauce than the meat.
White, Sparkling and Rose wines create contrasting pairings more often than not.
Red wines create congruent pairings more often than not.

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How To Pair food and Wine With Contrasting and Congruent Pairing

For example a contrasting pairing will create balance by contrasting tastes and flavors. So where the food is dense, the wine should be light. As well as where the food is sweet the wine should be dry. Thus every aspect should contrast if you want to be successful at this kind of pairing. Contrasting wine pairing is the base of many eastern culture cuisines. A good example would be sweet and sour.

Contrasting Examples:

Blue cheese with a Ruby Port
Maple Bacon with Champagne
Pork Chops with Riesling
Grilled Trout and Manzanilla Sherry

While a Congruent pairing will create balance by amplifying shared flavor compounds. Which is very common way of pairing wine in western cultures.

When pairing your wine with a food don’t forget the Sauce, If your food has a sauce on it you might want to consider the flavor of the sauce and weather the meat or the sauce has the most prominent flavor. Therefore you may find you benefit most from pairing to the sauce in some situations.

Congruent Examples:

Barbecue Pork with a zinfandel
Cucumber Salad with Sauvignon Blanc
Turkey and Cranberry sauce with a Pinot Noir
Buttery Popcorn with some Oaked Chardonnay

Here are a few types of wine and what they tend to match the best with:

Wine Pairing

Chardonnay – fatty fish or fish with a rich sauce
Moscato – fruity desserts
Pinot grigio – light fish dishes
Pinot noir – earthy flavors, such as mushrooms
Riesling – sweet and spicy dishes, like Asian foods
Sauvignon blanc – meals with tart dressing or sauce
Sparkling – salty foods

Here is also a few go to wine pairing food combos:

Wine Pairing Combinations

Cheeseburger – Cabernet Sauvignon
Chicken schnitzel – Riesling
Fish and chips – Cabernet Sauvignon

I barley scratched the surface of wine pairing. Because it can it can get pretty intense and complicated. As to which wines to pair with which foods for a variety of different reasons. I think a lot of what works together and taste good together can also depend on an individual person and their own personal taste. Certainly everybody has their own likes and dislikes we are all different for a good reason. Just think how boring life would be if we were all alike.

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