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Vallarta Wine Fest 2010
Food & Wine Pairing References
-Dry white wine, young, fruit-scented with a fresh acidity: Salads, Smoked Salmon, Seafood (especially very dry wines like Muscadet type), cheeses and fresh fruits.-Full bodied white wines, balanced, long and barrel aged: Pâté, Ham, Lobster, Fish with white sauce, Cold cuts, Chicken Salad and Light Cheeses.
-Sparkling white wine dry and fruit scented: Caviar, smoked Salmon, Seafood, Fish, Chicken, Turkey, Foie Gras, Fruit Tarts, Fruit Mousse, and any kind of dish.
-Semisweet light alcoholic white wines: Quiche, Fish with light sauce, Chicken, Dry Fruits, Fresh Salads, Almond cake.
-Sweet white wines with strong alcohol content: Cold or Hot Foie Gras, Fine and Delicate Fish, Blue Cheese, Dry Fruits, Apple Tart and Fruitcakes.
-Young Red wine, fruit scented, light to middle bodied: Cold Cuts, Ham, Duck, Turkey, Light Cheeses, Wine scented Fruits.
-Aged Red wines fruit scented and full bodied: Pâté, Red meat, duck, Fish in wine sauce, Strong Cheeses, Red fruits Tart and Chocolate desserts.
-Red wines with structure, long aged in barrel: Griddled Red Meat or Meat with Sauce, Strong and Creamy Cheese, Hunt Meat and Red fruit desserts.
In general, the best wine we can Pair is the one that we like the most, no matter what color, weight, quality, etc., in many occasions if we don’t like the wine that we are drinking, the dish can be diminished and not appreciated.
Here are some Pairings made by a French Sommelier named Robert Duret:
-Red meat with fat, served with a thick sauce goes good with a heavy and robust Red wine like Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve.
-Oil Cooked Salmon with Sauce goes with a Pinot Noir or Light Merlot.
-Thai Food, even the fact of being very spicy is not heavy, we recommend a light wine but strongly scented like the Gewürztraminer, the same goes for a Chicken with Curry, Ginger and Cumin.
-For a spicy red meat, you can try a young Merlot or a Malbec.
-A classic combination: Roquefort Cheese with Sauternes or Late Harvest.
-A Red Raspberry tart, Peach with syrup, Banana with honey or Custard combine perfectly with a Late Harvest or Sauternes.
-Acid Cheeses like Goat Cheese go good with an even more acid wine like White Sauvignon from a recent vintage.
-For Salty Cheeses like Roquefort or English Shilton is recommended sweet wines like porto, but with Camembert cheeses we can try a Cabernet Sauvignon or a strong Merlot.
-Smoked Cheeses go good with an aged Gewürztraminer.
-Fresh Cheeses, like goat cheese or cow milk cheese with fine herbs, pot marjoram or garlic go with White Sauvignon in an ideal way.
-Provencal Cheese that are macerated with fine herbs and olive oil go good with crispy bread and Cabernet Sauvignon.
-Seafood should be always accompanied with white wine preferably dry. -Soft crustaceans go well with young white wines made from the variety of Sauvignon Blanc.
-Seafood of intense flavor, like Sea Urchin requires the intensity of a strong wine and the best in this case is a fine, very dry Sherry or a white Sauvignon Reserve.
-For Seafood of more delicate and subtle flavors like oysters or Blue Crab we recommend Chardonnay.
-For Fish with fat and strong flavor like Salmon, Tuna and Grouper we recommend Chardonnay Reserve, also Red wines like Merlot or Sauvignon Blanc Reserve.
-Grilled Chicken and Turkey go good with Merlot, if this meat goes accompanied with sauce, dressings or spices that give an intense flavor, we must try Merlot Reserve or Cabernet Sauvignon.
-Pork can be Paired with a soft Red wine, like Merlot, Carmenere, Cabernet Franc, Malbec or also Chardonnay if is simply griddled. If is spicy we can try a full bodied red wine like Cabernet Sauvignon.
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