Happy Valentine\u2019s Day everyone! To celebrate, todays post will be all about pairing food and wine – arguably the greatest lovers of all time. A match made in heaven.<\/p>\n
Just as food can influence the taste of your wine, wine can also influence the taste of your food, and knowing exactly which wine to pair with your food is why sommeliers go through years and years of training. It\u2019s a topic that is tricky to get your head around, so we will keep things simple with the basic rules:<\/p>\n
SWEETNESS<\/strong> in your food will make your wine taste more bitter and acidic \u2013 make sure the wine you\u2019re serving alongside sweet dishes is sweeter than the food.<\/p>\n UMAMI<\/strong> flavours in your food (think dried porcini mushroom vibe) will also make your wine taste more bitter, acidic, and alcoholic \u2013 make sure the wine you are serving has plenty of concentrated fruit and consider adding salt and acid to your dish to help balance the umami-ness.<\/p>\n CHILLI<\/strong> heat in your food can be tricky, enhancing the perception of alcohol \u2013 surely you can recall trying to eat a spicy meal with a high alcohol wine. Really burns the old throat. Try pairing spicy food with lower alcohol white wines with a bit of sweetness to help balance the dish. Riesling, Pinot Gris<\/a> and Gewurztraminer<\/a> are great options here.<\/p>\n SALT<\/strong> and ACID<\/strong> are very wine-friendly components to have in your food and will enhance the fruity flavours in your wine whilst softening any bitterness and acidity.<\/p>\n Wine Education Wednesdays: Pairing Food and Wine Happy Valentine\u2019s Day everyone! To celebrate, todays post will be all about pairing food and wine – arguably the greatest lovers of all time. A match made in heaven. Just as food can influence the taste of your wine, wine can also influence the taste of your food,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2149,"featured_media":43912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254,1398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wine-education","category-thought-piece","category-2254","category-1398","description-off"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 11:09:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waudwines.com\/_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Hopefully you found that helpful – see you again next Wine Education Wednesday!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"