What makes for an excellent food and wine pairing?
Charles Curtis: Everybody wants to know, “what’s the right wine with this?” The truth is, drink what tastes good. People want to put the right wine with the right food, but the key to that is, you want to put the wine you want to drink with the food you want to eat. People say, “they pay you to tell me this?” But people are afraid to do that! They think there is some secret code. There is no secret code, but there are certain experiences that work better than others. The key to it is to experiment. My motto is: the more you drink, the more you know. That is only slightly tongue in cheek – sometimes, the more you drink, the more you fall down. The truth is, only by tasting the combinations do you find out what you like. A lot of people think it has to do with taste. But it doesn’t really. In terms of perceiving sensory impressions, taste is a relatively blunt instrument. It is more about smell than it is about taste. The things that relate to taste aren’t so much taste as tactile sensat
