Also, because of its herbaceous green notes, it’s usually perfect with dishes containing green herbs like parsley, basil, rosemary, or cilantro. It pairs with almost anything, including chicken and other poultry, shellfish, smoked foods, and spicy or pungent foods like raw garlic. Sauvignon blanc food pairing offers many options due to its crisp, refreshing nature with substantial acidity and notes of lime and green leafy herbs. Native to Bordeaux and the Loire Valley in France, this varietal is the major grape in white Bordeaux, and the parent grape to the famous red varietal cabernet sauvignon. Our discussion of food-friendly white wines starts with sauvignon blanc (soh-vinn-yohn blonk).
#Good wine for mac and cheese free#
White wines, blissfully free of those oppressive tannins, are far more cheese-friendly. And while big, tannic reds are perfect fits for some cheeses ( sharp Cheddar or pungent blue cheese, for example), they don’t work and play well with others. This is why you can’t age white wines as long in the cellar as you can reds: the antioxidants in red wine act as natural preservatives, and aging them awhile actually softens the tannins, making them less bitter. White wines have far fewer tannins than reds do, as tannins are concentrated in plant pigments. It’s the tannin, a bitter, astringent compound found primarily in the skins of the grapes. But the very thing that makes them dry-and the source of those antioxidants-is what makes them tricky to pair with cheese. And with all those antioxidants, they’re good for us! No argument here we love our red wines, too. Yes, yes, many of us love our big dry reds. Of course, there’s a cheese for every wine, and some wines go better with some cheeses than others…but if you want nearly foolproof wine and cheese pairings, make sure you have white wine on hand. Certain properties of wine, such as acidity, astringency, sweetness and others, complement the creamy, nutty, and pungent properties of cheese to create synergies of flavor in which the total is greater than the sum of the parts. (Actually, a strong case can be made for beer and cheese pairings, but that’s a different story.) Wine and cheese have been inextricably linked for centuries, with good reason.
Sauvignon blanc pairs with so many foods, but what cheese goes with moscato? It’s time for a wine and cheese party!įew foods go together better than wine and cheese. White wine is one of cheese’s best friends.
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