How to Pair Wine & Cheese

 
         Food Pairings are so important to  have that ultimate wine experience. One of the simpler and more effective wine pairings is with cheese.How do you pair  the right wine with the right cheese?
   
        With the expertise of wineintro.com,  they explain the taste process and then finish it off with a wine and cheese pairing list.So where to start ... how about those two sense organs that most humans possess: the nose and tongue.

The sensation wine gives you - flavor and aroma - does not come chiefly from your tongue. Your tongue has "zones" for each type of flavor it can taste, so you want the wine to be able to go over each section. The tip senses sweet, the front sides salt, the back sides acid, and the very back bitter. Even in each section, there are buds of different "intensities".

In comparison with this well-organized but generalizing tongue, your nose is incredibly sensitive at picking out minute differences in aroma. It is able to sense concentrations of some odors in the parts-per-million quantity. Practice often with both senses, paying attention to the flavors you are detecting in the wine, learning what combinations you enjoy and do not enjoy. The more flavors you try in your day to day activities, the greater the "background of taste knowledge" you will have when you try to figure out what a particular wine tastes like.

Pairing is not an arcane science. It is simply the decision of which wine will bring out the best in a given food, and which food will bring out the best in a given wine, all based on how you personally enjoy both.

One very typical wine-food pairing is Cheese, and many wine parties have cheese as the main snack. Why is this? There are so many varieties of cheeses that there is one that goes well with any type of wine you might try.

 
Cheese tends to make a wine taste better, too. It "smooths out" the wine and brings out what is best in both. Both wine and cheese are natural products, something created with care and aged to perfection.
In most cases a red wine goes well with hard cheese, while white wines go well with softer cheeses, but again this comes down to your own personal tastes and what combinations of flavors you enjoy.

         Cheese Type                          Wine                        Suggestion

• Brie                                        Red Wine              Cabernet/Beaujolais
• Mild Cheddar                          White Wine            Chardonnay
• Strong Cheddar                       Red Wine              Cabernet/Sauvignon Blanc
• Cream Cheese                        White Wine           White Zinfandel
• Danish Blue                            Red Wine              Cabernet
• Feta                                       Red Wine              Beaujolais
• Gorgonzola                             White Wine           Sauternes-Bordeaux
• Gouda                                    White Wine           Riesling
• Muenster                                Red Wine              Beaujolais
• Provolone                                White Wine          Chardonnay

We hope this gets you started on your wine pairing journey.


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