Is there a really easy way to learn about wine and food pairings?
Well, Gary…Certainly Here’s the main thing you need to know. All there is to food and wine pairing is that similar wine goes with similar foods. Duh, OK, that’s overly simplistic but think of it this way. Light wines with light foods, heavy wines with heavier foods. For instance, we all know white wines go with chicken and fish and red wines go with red meat, right. That’s not an absolute, BTW. But is right in most cases. Here’s why that is. White wines are lighter than reds, like chicken is lighter than steak. I think most people over think wine and food pairings and over complicate a really fun thing. So I’m going to do two things today to make it easy for you. Instead of trying to memorize all the quote “perfect” matches, just do this. Find a red and white wine variety you like and in the beginning just pick those. I bet I’ve had 1000’s of glasses of ice tea in my life and I never stopped once to see if my tea went with my chicken or steak. When you stop overly worrying about your p
