Cheese And Wine Pairings

how can I understand wine and food pairings better?

At restaurants, it’s usually easy cause you just ask what goes well with the food you want and they tell you and it almost always tastes great.

But every time i try to pair food And Wine at home I mess it up horribly and they never taste good together. I’ll usually start with a bottle of wine and then research it a bit online to see what other people have paired it with and what typically goes with it and then I create a dish (or dishes) based off of those things. Every time the food usually comes out great, and the wine is great, but they don’t go together. I’ve tried a variety of wines with lots of different food pairings but without much luck. The best I can get is something simple, like wine and cheese, but I can never get the whole meal to go.

I have no idea what I’m doing wrong and I’m tired of making food that never matches the wine. Any help?

If you have $35 to invest (I’m sure it’s less on Amazon), I would suggest buying the book What to Drink with What You Eat by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page. It doesn’t give you a lot of theory. What it does give you is half a book of food listing that then tell you what wine to have with the food and half a book of wine listings that tell you what foods go great with them. It is EXTREMELY detailed. Since I bought it, it has been the only thing I’ve given as a gift to my friends and everyone loves it.

Once you let the book help you with the pairings, you’ll begin to develop a better understanding on your own of why they work, but this way you shouldn’t have too many bad steps along the way.

And to the people who say there are no rules, I say – yes, be happy, drink whatever you want with whatever you are eating. But, if you reach that nirvana of the perfect pairing where the wine makes the food better and the food makes the wine better, you’ll start looking into those rules

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