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What wine whith what food?

What food with what wine? There is help.....

Wine can be drunk at any moment, alone or with friends and family, for a business lunch or just as a starter.

Here are some general serving principles to enhance your wine experience - in whatever context it may be.

Are you planning to serve several wines during your dinner?  Start easily ! Head rules : A white wine before a red, a light wine before a stronger or heavier one, young wine before passing to longer aged ones, and dry wines before sweet ones !

About what color of wine to choose :

 - Dry white wine before red wine.

 - White wine with fish, poultry and white meats (not late harvest or sweet wines though)

 - Red wine with fish such as tuna, poultry with brown meat such as duck and all red meats.

 - Sweet white wines are generally served at the end of a meal.

More tips on how to combine food and wine :

 - Light wine with light food

 - Subtle wine with "small" dishes

 - Heavy wine with heavy or spicy food

Some enlightening examples

The food might exaggerate the character of a wine. If you for example would eat hazelnuts (heavy in tannin) with a tannic red wine, the taste of the wine would be either so dry or so astringent that it would be considered undrinkable. 

The food might weaken the character of a wine. The protein (in meat for exemple) weakens the tannin. A very tannic red wine (not good to drink alone) might turn into a delicious wine if it is served with a good meat.

The intensity of the food aromas might hide the wine's aromas, and vice versa. Is a common mistake with too rich and heavy wines to light fish.

The wine can add aromas to the food. A fruity red burgundy wine can add its fruity aromas to the food, so that it seems to belong to the food itself.

The combination of wine - food can create an unpleasant taste that was neither in the wine, nor in the food.  Such as the metallic taste resulting from red bordeaux wine combined with turkey.

The wine can interfere and create a stronger aromatic experience from food and wine in combination, than from any of them alone. This is the ultimate goal !