IF ANYONE ASKS ME THAT QUESTION ONE MORE TIME I THINK I MIGHT SCREAM? BUT TO BE HONEST, IT WAS THE QUESTION
THAT MADE ME GIVE UP MY JOB, START STUDYING TO BECOME A MASTER OF WINE AND TRY AND SAVE US ALL!
To introduce myself, I’m The Wine Angel, my wine app was voted number one wine app in the UK for the last three years, the food and wine matching tool will help you choose that perfect grape variety for dinner. I hope this is the first wine column you have started to read and have not fallen asleep yet?
This is the problem- we ALL drink wine these days. At home, in restaurants, with friends. But do we actually know what we are drinking, let alone like it? We all want to know more, but haven’t got the time to learn and we certainly don’t want read a wine column where some prehistoric chap is telling us what to uncork with our Sunday roast.
Every month I’ll be here shedding some light on what people perceive to be the scary world of wine! You can learn about grape varieties, and discover your very own palate through choosing and tasting based upon your new-found knowledge. My aim within a few months is to give you the confidence to decide what you like, what you want to drink and how much you want to spend. You will be ripping that wine list off your partner to choose that perfect wine for dinner and you won’t be wandering around the wine aisle like a headless chicken anymore!
Also, each month I will be recommending a wine to complement our Marbella Rocks ‘Chill In’ recipe. Wine and Food matching is a speciality of mine, and it really is a great way to understand why and how we can complement a meal with our chosen wine.
Food and wine matching is great fun! There are general rules, but a good tip to remember if you get stuck choosing, is that wines were originally made locally to reflect their particular region’s/country’s cuisine. The food’s provenance will match with the wines of the land. So, choose a wine to complement the dish’s origin e.g. full bodied, highly tannic Spanish Rioja with their inland, rustic cuisine of stews. Another example is high acid red wines e.g. Chianti, which matches perfectly with high acid, tomato-based Italian foods, such as Bolognese. Also cooking methods can influence the best style of wine to choose. So with steamed food, you should try and drink a lighter wine, otherwise the delicacy of the food will be destroyed.
General food and wine matching rules are to match sweet wine with sweet food, acidic wine with acidic or salty food, spicy wine with spicy food, red wine with red meat and white wine with white, although this traditional rule can often be relaxed. Wine Angel is all about educating you to choose, and to have the confidence to drink what you wish.
