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Today's Schedule. In a 15 minute lecture I will:Define and explain food flavors, wine flavors and texturesExplain the industry's standard wine matching principlesThen you will have 10 minutes to:Describe smell and taste of each wineThen you break up in teams to:In 15-20 minutes experiment with as many food and wine combinations as possible In 2nd hour of class each team and individual will express team's conclusions and personal preferencesHopefully demonstrating that there is a match fo1145
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1. Food and Wine Pairing With Everyday Food
2. Today’s Schedule In a 15 minute lecture I will:
Define and explain food flavors, wine flavors and textures
Explain the industry’s standard wine matching principles
Then you will have 10 minutes to:
Describe smell and taste of each wine
Then you break up in teams to:
In 15-20 minutes experiment with as many food and wine combinations as possible
In 2nd hour of class each team and individual will express team’s conclusions and personal preferences
Hopefully demonstrating that there is a match for every food item and that food tastes better with wine and visa-versa
3. Today’s Learning Objectives While enjoying ourselves, learn to:
Identify the tastes and textures of wine with and without food
Understand industry’s standard traditional wine matching principles
Apply, analyze and compare the principles with various choices
Justify and explain your match choices, both positive and negative
4. Food Flavors and Best Matches SALTY – Crisp, dry whites, with addition of salt oaky reds become less tannic
SAVORY – Medium to full bodied reds depending on the intensity of seasonings or smokiness, i.e. Shiraz or Zinfandel
SOUR – Light, slightly fruity white or light Italian red, i.e. Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc or Valpolicella
SPICY – Spice reduces the sweetness of wine or enhances its fruitiness, i.e. German white
SWEET – Wine should be sweeter than dessert because the sweetness makes the wine drier
5. East/West Taste buds Western Four: sweet, sour, salt & bitter
Eastern Five: sweet, sour, salt, bitter & hot
NEW REVOLUTION
Japan replaces hot with “Unami” a heightened taste but their definition evolves today to “the taste of perfection.”
Very few wines evoke Unami – wine must be at its apex of flavor and matched with slow food.
Most modern fast wines match well with fast foods and the today’s Western four.
6. Thinking out of the Bottle as I see it Fried fast food – white Zinfandel, Riesling, Gamay or Aussie Shiraz
Cold cuts, Hamburgers, Pizza, Hotdogs or Quesadilla – Gamay, Beaujolais-style
Tacos/burritos, Cheeseburgers, Cheese Steak Sandwiches or Crudite with dips – Cabernet Franc instead of the traditional Sauvignon because its fruitier and less tannin
7. Out of Bottle con’t Fish & Chips – Pinot Noir “the white wine in a red suit”
Pizza & Pasta – Sagiovese or your favorite red
Thai – Riesling “the versatile wine” or a Gewurztraminer
Chili – Red Bordeaux, an inexpensive one
Corn on the cob or tamales – a new world chardonnay that has toasty oak taste with a creamy, buttery finish
8. Dry & Off-dry Whites From Lightest to Heaviest Soave, Orvieto, Pinot Grigio
Off-dry Riesling
Dry Riesling
Sparkling Wines & Champagne
Chenin Blanc, Chablis
Chardonnay (unoaked)
Sauvignon Blanc
White Bordeaux & Burgundy
Gewürztraminer
Aged US & Aussie Chardonnay
9. Reds – Lightest to WeightiestFor Sauces of Similar Weight Valpolicella
Beaujolais
Dolcetto, Rioja
CA Pinot Noir
Burgundy
Barbera, Chianti, Barolo
Bordeaux
Merlot
Cabernet Sauvignon
Rhone, Shiraz, Syrah
10. Next Week’s Assignment Learning the Aroma Wheel
Experiencing wine with our sense of smell to evoke emotion, mood and memory
Descriptors – Qualitative and Structural, apply them to the wine we taste
Learn the expected Aromas characteristics of the each of the wine Varietals