Four Wine Pairing Rules You Need To Break
You must have often heard of the famous wine and food pairing rules that promise absolute disaster, if anyone even thinks of deviating from them. Well, rules as they say are meant to be broken, so join us on an adventure and learn about the four wine pairing rules you need to break.
Experimenting with wine and food pairing is often looked at with a condescending manner and veteran chefs do not waste any time in making you realize your folly, if your wine does not go well with the food served. Not anymore! Discussed below are the four wine pairing rules to be broken.
Drink red with red and white with white
The norm says that red wine goes best with meat, white wine tastes divine with fish and any intermixing of wines is a shortcut to a disastrous meal. Well, if the spices and the sauces that have been used to season fish is hot, bold and heavy on the side, the fish will taste great with a full-bodied red wine like Shiraz or Zinfandel. The flavor of the red wine would beautifully complement the bold flavour of the seasoning.
Always serve Red wine at room temperature
Contrary to the popular belief, some exceptions to the above rules exist. Some varieties of red wine, especially the ones which are lighter-bodied, taste best when served slightly chilled. Couple of examples are the red Rioja and Beaujolais wines. These wines taste best when they are chilled for 7-10 minutes, uncorked and poured.
Red wine needs to breathe
When the red wine bottle is opened for the first time, the red wine has a sour, astringent like flavor, so the wine needs to be kept open for a while to allow it attain its flavour. But instead of using a decanter for letting a wine “breathe”, one can just pour the wine in the glass and let it sit for some while.
Drink red wine after white wine and not vice-versa
The usual flow of the wines in a multi course meal is from white wines to red wines. However, there are some desserts which only taste good when paired with white wines. So, one can have red wines for dinner and move on to the white dessert wines for the dessert course.
The above mentioned rules are the four wine pairing rules to be broken if you are a rebel and an adventurer by nature. So break some of the wine pairing rules and who knows, maybe you end up writing your own rules book!
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