| Are you unsure which wine to serve with which | | | | Chardonnay. On the other hand, because Salmon |
| foods? Generally, you should serve food and wine | | | | is one of the densest, heaviest flavored fish, you |
| that share a likeness with one another. Whether it | | | | could also do quite well with a lighter red wine |
| is an ethnic likeness, a color likeness, or a texture | | | | such as a Pinot Noir. People who prefer red wines |
| and body likeness, your wine and your food | | | | to white wines often prefer Pinot Noir with |
| should complement one another. | | | | Salmon to a white wine. |
| Typically, tomato Italian dishes or beef with Italian | | | | Perhaps you are serving Chinese food. Unlike |
| herb dishes call for Italian red wines and creamy | | | | France and Italy, the Chinese did not develop their |
| Italian dishes and Italian vegetable dishes call for | | | | food around wine drinking. Typically, though, if you |
| Italian white wines. People in Italy have been | | | | do not wish to match your Chinese food with the |
| making wine for as long as people have populated | | | | ethnic rice wine, Sake, you would want to follow |
| Italy, and they have developed their wines around | | | | the same guidelines for choosing wine for Chinese |
| their foods so pairing Italian foods with Italian | | | | food as you do other foods. If you are cooking |
| wines is a natural match. | | | | beef stir-fry, match the beef with a light red wine. |
| To some degree, the French can say the same | | | | If you are preparing seafood sushi, choose a light |
| about their wines. However, the French not only | | | | white wine such as a Chenin Blanc to match the |
| developed their wines around their fabulous foods, | | | | seafood. |
| they also developed wines for sipping and | | | | You can pair lighter foods such as quiche with |
| enjoying without foods. At any rate, you would | | | | Pinot Grigio for a summer afternoon luncheon and |
| be safe to purchase French wines for any French | | | | you can pair heavy beef stews for a winter |
| dish that you prepare, again, matching lighter | | | | evening meal with a stout Shiraz. You can even |
| foods with whites and heavier foods with reds. | | | | pair your favorite chocolate desserts with an |
| Whether you are serving Italian food, French | | | | array of wines. Lighter milk chocolates |
| food, other meat dishes, vegetarian dishes or | | | | complement fruity white wines and dark |
| cheese, you can find the perfect balance for your | | | | chocolate desserts complement big dry reds like |
| meal if you select the proper wine to accompany | | | | Cabernet Sauvignon. |
| it. You can even select the perfect dessert wine | | | | You can also pair wine and cheese in several |
| either to have as dessert or to accompany your | | | | ways. While this is an extensive topic on its own, |
| dessert. | | | | a few good matches are sharp cheddar with |
| If you are serving, say, grilled Salmon, you have a | | | | Cabernet Sauvignon or Swiss or Gruyere with |
| few choices for types of wine that will suit. You | | | | Pinot Noir. Blue cheeses go well with sweet whites |
| could go with traditional wisdom and select a | | | | like Sauternes and soft rich creamy cheeses like |
| white wine for your fish dinner, which would | | | | brie pair well with buttery Chardonnays. |
| preferably be a buttery wine such as a | | | | |