January 15, 2007

4 More Rules for Pairing Wine with Food

If you ask most people for tips on how to pair wine and food, they'll mumble something vague about red wine going with meat and white wine going with fish, and not have much more to offer. We're starting to become very interested in this kind of pairing, and we stumbled over an article from Ask Men offering some more in-depth information on the subject, and we even forgive their use of the word "oenophile." One detail we found interesting was the rule of thumb that you shouldn't pair a sweeter food with a less-sweet wine.

AskMen's 4 rules are:

1- Match flavors and tastes

2- Take your cues from the kitchen

3- Offset tastes

4- Start light and build up

Read the full explanations of these guidelines at AskMen.com
[via The Cooking News]

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Comments

I noticed a contridiction in a statement.
"As far as sweetness goes, the general rule holds that you don’t serve a dish that is sweeter than the wine." Taken from Askmen.com.

You state:

"One detail we found interesting was the rule of thumb that you shouldn't pair a wine and food where the wine is the sweeter one."

Posted by: George at January 15, 2007 8:33 PM

Looks like we got our wires crossed when we typed that one - no wonder that struck me as strange. Just fixed it.

Posted by: Head Wino at January 15, 2007 8:37 PM