To: The Host & Hostess
From: Culinary Muse
Date: When In Doubt
Subject: Wine Pairings
When in doubt or your senses are leading you astray turn to this basic wine pairing guide.
Red Wine
BARBERA
Antipasto, cold meats, pasta with tomato sauce, pasta with vegetables, pizza, hamburger, sausage, veal
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Chicken, steak, duck, lamb, venison, hamburger, goat cheese, hard cow and sheep cheese, chocolate, berries
CHIANTI
Pasta with tomato sauce, pizza, most Italian foods
GAMAY BEAUJOLAIS
Chicken, ham, turkey, sausage, antipasto, cold meats, pasta with vegetables, quiche, hamburger, frankfurters, spicy Mexican foods
MERLOT
Chicken, steak, turkey, tuna, duck, ham, lamb, veal, spicy Chinese foods, soft or hard goat cheese
PINOT NOIR
Salmon, tuna, scallops, swordfish, chicken, duck, lamb, pheasant, quail, rabbit, venison, foie gras, soft or hard goat cheese, medium cow and sheep cheese
SANGIOVESE
Pizza, moussaka
ZINFANDEL
Chicken, steak, turkey, duck, lamb, rabbit, hamburger, sausage, venison, curry (chicken or fish), moussaka, pizza, hard cow and sheep cheese
White wine
CHARDONNAY
Shrimp, lobster, crab, scallops, red snapper, striped bass, other white fish, tuna, oysters (raw), pasta with shellfish, pasta with clam sauce, crudité, chicken, turkey, veal
CHENIN BLANC
Chicken, shrimp, oysters (raw), clams, mussels, antipasto, crudité, quiche, pasta salad, Thai foods, spicy Mexican foods, hard cow and sheep cheese
GEWÜRZTRAMINER
Foie gras, paté, prosciutto, smoked fish (trout, herring), chicken salad, Thai foods, hard cow and sheep cheese, fresh fruit
MARSANNE
Crab, lobster
PINOT BLANC
Shrimp, striped bass, mussels, smoked fish (trout, herring), clams, oysters (raw), antipasto, pasta with cream sauce, pasta with vegetables, crudité, prosciutto, chicken salad, spicy Chinese foods, Thai foods
PINOT GRIGIO / GRIS
Salmon, salmon tartare, oysters (raw), mussels, antipasto, spicy Chinese foods
RIESLING (DRY)
Chicken, white fish, smoked fish (trout, herring), oysters (raw), sausage, pasta salad, pasta with vegetables, quiche, frankfurters, curry (fish or chicken), spicy Chinese foods, spicy Mexican foods, Thai foods
RIESLING (SEMI-DRY)
Chicken, sausage, sushi, sashimi, smoked fish (trout, herring), quiche, asparagus, cold meats, paté, prosciutto, rabbit, chicken salad, curry (chicken or fish), spicy Chinese foods, spicy Mexican foods, Thai foods
SAUVIGNON (FUMÉ) BLANC
Salmon, shrimp, swordfish, tuna, red snapper, mussels, crab, scallops, clams, oysters (raw), pasta with shellfish, pasta with vegetables, pasta salad, Nicoise salad, asparagus, antipasto, foie gras, curry (fish or chicken), soft goat cheese
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