How to pair wine and food

Wine Tasting Tips

Each dish has its ideal wine to accompany it and should be served at the correct temperature. It’s necessary to consider the various types of wine: red and white, sparkling wine, liqueur, sweet, lively white, red frame, pink, soft white, aromatic, full-bodied red, each with its degree of aging and importance, to offer good food and wine pairing in a menu.

The pairings between wine and food are numerous and varied. The agreements must be established between the smells and flavors of the wine and the dish tasted. Today, more than ever, the importance of food is higher on the world stage. Any excuse is good to talk about food and wine if you consider all types of cuisines and fashions born every day: nouvelle cuisine, traditional cuisine, cuisine reinvented, fusion cuisine, cooking finger food, ethnic cuisine, and … so forth.

Because of the importance given today to the cuisine is inevitable to be able to bring the right wine to the food served on the table. Beyond the taste, which is always strictly personal, there are some basic considerations to evaluate when choosing a wine to pair with food. See Table of combinations.

How to pair wine with food

1) Identify the components of the flavor of a food
It is essential to decipher the flavor components of a food to see what value and what to compensate with wine. Sweet, bitter, salty, sour, spicy, and spicy are just some of the flavors that result from a plate.

2) Identify the components of the flavor and structure of a wine
Even with the wine, one must decipher the components and main characteristics. It is essential, both for food and for wine, that once you establish the dominant flavors, you choose whether to use a food matching that enhances or attenuates these aspects predominate.

3) Advice
It is suggested that you always look for a balance in the matching.

Examples
A delicate dish requires a light wine, while the intense flavors you respond in kind with a substantial wine.

Importance of the right wine
After each mouthful of the same food, the taste buds send signals to the brain less and less strongly; then you can appreciate that food less and less. Precisely for this reason it is important to match the right wine, you say “perfectly clean” the mouth combine harmoniously with the food so that every bite is as good as the first.