{"id":9132,"date":"2016-02-04T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T09:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/?p=9132"},"modified":"2016-02-04T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T09:07:32","slug":"food-and-wine-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/food-and-wine-pairing\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Wine pairing"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all love to host parties- long, elaborate dinners which are always accompanied by drinks. How do you decide what to serve along with your menu? Do you have personal favourites when it comes to wines?<\/p>\n

I truly believe that the choice of a wine can truly enhance the experience and a bad wine can ruin it. I remember, a few years ago, I was invited to a party. The food looked delicious and we were offered wine which we partook of happily. Unfortunately, the wine was a really bad Merlot, so strong and so acidic that it stunned my taste-buds and completely ruined my dinner experience, because I couldn’t really taste the delicious food that I was looking forward to!<\/p>\n

So how does one match wines to food?<\/p>\n

The thumb rule is to serve delicate-flavoured foods like white fish or poached chicken with lighter bodied wines and stronger, robustly flavoured foods\u00a0 with full-bodied wines.<\/p>\n

So then would you choose a sweet wine to go with the food?<\/p>\n

Well, there are some more rules!<\/p>\n

If serving with sweet food, it is preferable that the wine is sweeter than the food itself, so serve a dessert wine or a sherry. If the food is sweeter than the wine, the the wine most definitely tastes horrible.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, sweetish wines enhance the flavour of\u00a0 savoury food\u00a0 and complement\u00a0 cheeses perfectly.<\/p>\n

Having said that, would you then serve a Red or a White or then a sparkling?<\/p>\n

What would you serve with a roast or a salad or a curry? Have I got you truly and properly confused?<\/p>\n

This infographic from Roberson Wines<\/a> should help you out!<\/p>\n

\"Roberson<\/p>\n

This post was in collaboration with Roberson wines.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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