How to use food to match good wine?

　　I have been telling various friends that wine is not so tall at all. Treating it with ordinary heart will allow you to experience a variety of different noodles in the future For more fun. This is also my long-standing philosophy: to popularize wine culture in general, rather than deified, especially some "wine tasters", do not deify the high-end self.

　　 Just like this question, who said that red wine can only be served with steak but not with other? Is it okay to lie down at home watching TV and eat snacks and drink red wine? Just follow the principle of wine and food matching-flavor complements each other Good results can be achieved if they do not conflict with each other.

　　First introduce a few simple but practical principles of wine and food pairing, hurry back:

　　1. Seeking the same level of acidity

　　2. Tannin with fat

　　3. Fish needs acidity instead of tannin

　　4. Main flavor is used instead of fixed ingredients

　　5. Spicy sweet

　　6. Sweet and sweeter

　　 Here are a few of them (between the question is red wine, then I will say red wine):

　　1 . Fruits

　　Fresh strawberries, blueberries, blackberries can be paired with Beaujolais. Beaujolais is rich in fresh berries, which can achieve a complementary effect, and even some Beaujolais poured directly into the slightly frozen berry dish and soaked for a while.

　　Banana can also be paired with lighter red wine.

　　 For red wines with heavier flavors or higher sugar and alcohol content, such as Bordeaux blends or Italian Barbaresco, etc., can be combined with dried berries.

　　 2. Chocolate

　　 chocolate with red wine is a classic.

　　1). 31% Cocoa Salted Caramel Milk Chocolate + Pinot Noir

　　 Chocolate with salty and creamy flavor and red wine with low sugar content can sweeten Maximize with Savory

　　2). 72% cocoa dark chocolate + bubble Shiraz

　　 medium-bodied Shiraz with a hint of bitterness, complemented by dark chocolate with high cocoa content

　　3). 72% Cocoa Almond Dark Chocolate + Cabernet Sauvignon

　　Cabernet Sauvignon’s profound flavor complements the nutty flavor of this chocolate.

　　4). 50% cocoa sea salt dark chocolate + Malbec

　　 Malbec is a red wine with chocolate, clove and ripe fruit flavor, well balanced with the sea salt flavor in chocolate .

　　 We can see from this collocation the principle of collocation I mentioned earlier. It is generally not wrong to match food and wine at the same level: for example, sweeter chocolate with higher sugar content Wine, chocolate with higher cocoa content and heavier flavors are paired with wine of the same taste and heavier flavors.

　　 Many other very sweet Port wines or VDN are also very suitable for matching different styles of chocolate.

　　3. Cheese, cheese-flavored biscuits, soda crackers plus cheese

　　Because Cheese and wine have many varieties and very different tastes, their combination is very esoteric and complicated Independent subject.

　　 For a simple classification of cheese, you can use the following combination:

　　1). Fresh and soft Cheese:

　　follows the same principle---- Complement each other instead of conflicting: fresh and soft cheese It can be paired with white wines with higher acidity or lighter red wines with lower tannins. Avoid red wines with heavy tannins and heavy body, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec mentioned above Blended with Bordeaux

　　2). Semi-soft and half-aged cheese:

　　This cheese follows the soft cheese above It has a heavier taste and a stronger structure, so we have to use the same deep wine to match it: white wine with a medium body, red wine with a heavy fruit and a medium body, and some old sparkling wines. It is a good choice.

　　3). Sticky cheese:

　　 is suitable for lighter and more orthodox wines, such as Pinot Noir

　　4). Blue cheese:< /p>

　　 This famous but smelly cheese comes with salty and appetizing umami, suitable for combination with highly sweet and deep-tasting wines, such as port wine and Banyuls, etc.

　　5). A long-aged cheese:

　　 This cheese is very hard and has a nutty flavor, so it is also suitable for wine with a long weight and long age, and it is oxidized with The processed sherry can also be matched. For example: Champagne, Port, France Rhone Valley red wine, Oloroso sherry, etc.

　　Some cheese-flavored cookies can also be used as substitutes

　　 These are very simple and rough matching principles, interested friends can Study and study more mysteries.

　　4. Cashew nuts, pistachios, walnuts and other nuts

　　Cashew nuts and pistachio walnuts Everyone has eaten a lot, but when it comes to red wine matching, the scary thing is that these nuts also have many methods of making : Roasting, sugar coating, salt coating, etc., bring great difficulties to the mix. I once watched an event that was specially paired with nuts and red wine, you can share their list:

　　1). Sugar-coated walnut: Cabernet Sauvignon

　　2). Pecans (the kind with two pointed ends): Pinot Noir or other lighter wines p>

　　3). Roasted nuts: plump red wine, you can choose red wine with steak.

　　4). Cashew nuts and pistachios: lighter and refreshing wines

　　5. Pizza

　　The tomato-flavored pizza is very suitable for Italy Red wine collocation, after all, from a hometown: Chianti, Nero D'Avalo and Barbera, etc.

　　6. Beef jerky

　　collocation is really a terrible learning, beef jerky There are also many different types and brands.

　　 But the price of beef jerky is not high, and supermarkets are everywhere, you can combine the principles given at the beginning of my article and the above examples to try more with various wines.