Wine that loves food
I’ll come right out and admit I don’t know much about wine. I know it’s good to experiment, so I’m starting from scratch.
So when I heard about a wine that tells you what to pair it with, I was sold.
Wine That Loves comes in five varieties. It’s currently not available in New Hampshire, so I hopped across the border to a shop in Pepperell to check it out. I walk in, and just a couple steps from the door, straight ahead, was a huge display for the wines.
The names of the wines immediately give away which wine goes with which food:
- Wine That Loves Roasted Chicken.
- Wine That Loves Grilled Steak.
- Wine That Loves Pasta with Tomato Sauce.
- Wine That Loves Grilled Salmon.
They are all red wines except for the salmon wine.
I thought I’d choose two to start with — Pizza and Roasted Chicken.
I went home and made a pizza and threw togather a salad for dinner. Splitting dinner with a friend, we also split the bottle of wine, which was Italian.
We both liked the red wine, and thought everything we consumed that night tasted great together. The back of the bottle goes in depth in four areas: intensity, acidity, tannin and flavor, which was fun to check out.
A few weeks later, we opened up the Roasted Chicken wine, a Spanish wine. Actually, we had grilled, marinated chicken; I can’t let a wine completely dictate my meal!
While I liked the taste of both wines and would drink them again, there was a downside.
Both wines are labeled as "red table wines." What does this mean? I think the biggest problem for these beginner wines is the lack of a place to go from here. And more information on the dish wouldbe nice, too. I had made a plain cheese pizza to be "safe," but would the wine have tasted just as good with a Hawaiian pie?
It seems like an easy fix, though. With more information on the labels, a consumer could make good choices in the future when buying wine.
Wine That Loves has potential. It’s a fun idea, it’s the opposite of snobby and I could see bringing it to a party for the novelty factor. It could easily branch out for more foods, too. The Web site says the wines are $12.99, but I bought them for $10.99. I’d say they’re worth the price to try out.
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