Food and Wine Pairing - Perfect Pairings

Goat Cheese Crostini

White wine - Appetizer

Sea Bass with Citrus and Soy

White wine - Seafood

Double Cut Pork Chop with Mustard Sauce

Red wine - Meat

Asparagus and Goat-Cheese Frittata

Red wine - Poultry

Seafood Stew

White wine - Seafood

Corn Chowder with Seasonal Mushrooms and Crab Garnish

White wine - Soup

Ridiculously Good Chocolate Cookies

Dessert wine - Dessert

Broiled Lobster Tails

White wine - Seafood

Mini Beef Wellingtons

Red wine - Meat

Flank Steak over Corn-Kernel Polenta

Red wine - Meat

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Food and Wine Pairing Basics: Quick Food and Wine Pairing Tips

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Quick Food and Wine Pairing Tips

Spicy Food
goes with a sweet wine
Riesling or a Gewurztraminer.
Sweet Desserts
should always be less sweet than the wine
demi-sec is good for this.
Sweet Foods
like Italian tomato sauce, Japanese teriyaki, and honey- mustard glazes make your wine seem drier than it really is so try an off-dry (slightly sweet) wine to balance the flavor
Chenin Blanc, White Zinfandel, Riesling.
High Acid Foods
like salads with balsamic vinaigrette dressing, soy sauce, or fish served with a squeeze of lemon go well with wines higher in acid
Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Pinot Noir. White Zinfandel, although not as high in acid, can provide a nice contrast to high acid foods.
Bitter and Astringent Foods
like a mixed green salad of bitter greens, Greek kalamata olives and charbroiled meats accentuate a wine's bitterness so complement it with a full-flavored forward fruity wine
Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot.
Big tannic red wines
like many red Zinfandels, and Shiraz or Syrah wines will go best with your classic grilled steak or lamb chops, as the fat in the meat will tone down the tannin (bitterness) in the wine.