A Wine for Every Meal – What Goes Well Together? - By: Phil Adams-Wright

Choosing a bottle of wine to have with dinner may seem like a good idea, the trouble is that some people buy the wrong wine and can have a sad effect on your dinner party. The trouble with drinking wine with meals, much like any drink, is that the flavours in the food you’re eating can be washed away or clash with the drink you have with the meal. Some people may not pay much attention to their choice of wine with a meal, in many cases it can be whatever the buyer wants to spend that determines the bottle of wine that is sat on the dinner table.

Sometimes you need to look past the price tag though, some more expensive wines could taste a bit off with your meal where a cheaper bottle may have complimented the meal perfectly. There are plenty of sources of information on what wines go best with any particular meal; there are even “dessert wines” that work well with some desserts. So after understanding that some wines can make or break your meal the second step is to know what goes well with your chosen meal.

A lot of wine bottles will have their usual flowery description on the side of the bottle and inform you of exactly what type of food the wine goes well with. For others though we have to either find out for ourselves through experimentation or advice. A common piece of advice is if you are serving lighter meats such as pork or chicken then it is best to opt for a lighter wine, such as a Riesling, as some stronger wines have such an overpowering effect that you would lose the delicate flavours of the actual food.

Wine doesn’t always over power meals though, when eating steak or pasta dishes a dark wine such as a Merlot can really help draw out a lot of flavours that you wouldn’t have experienced had you ate the food on its own. In the end you’ll have likely spent a lot of time and care preparing the meal, you don’t want all your hours of effort to be wasted because of the choice of wine that you bring to the table.

It is advisable to find out what you want to eat; from there you can narrow down the wine to get making your trip to the shops much easier. It’s important to remember that not all people’s tastes are alike and that these tips are a general guide, part of the fun of enjoying wine is being able to experiment and try new and exciting wines.

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