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Food and Wine Matching

Some Key Principles of Food & Wine Matching :

Contrast

• salty food with sweet wine (eg Rocquefort with Muscat)
• rich/oily food with sweet wine (eg foie gras with Sauternes)
• salty food with sharp wine (eg ham, oysters, olives with Fino Sherry, Loire Sauvignon, dry Riesling, Chablis etc)
• rich/oily food with sharp wine (eg Chinese with Loire Sauvignon, Confit de Canard with Loire reds)

Match

• sweet food with sweet wine (eg Tarte Tatin with Riesling Spatlese or Vouvray Moelleux - wine should be sweeter than food)
• foods with acidity with sharp wine (eg tomato-dishes with Barbera wines, vinaigrettes with Loire sauvignon etc)
• wines from cooler climates have higher acidity.

More Food & Wine Matching content coming soon!

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• Canadian harvest begins
  The Canadian harvest started today in Ontario's Niagara region, the earliest commercial picking there in more than 20 years.