Summer Wine

Summer Wine Pairings: Let’s Eat!

For a lot of people, summertime means grilling. When you take your kitchen outside, make sure that you do not forget guests from your wine cellar. This is important since we can experience 150 different flavor sensations and grape wine can trigger almost all of them. This means that by adding some wine to your grilling menu, you can turn an enjoyable experience into a memorable one. Just make sure that you keep your summer wine out of the sun and in cool conditions that are around 55 degrees F.

Understanding Matching With Food

There are four different types of food dishes associated with dining al fresco that you can serve with wine:

First, there are heavy dishes, which are foods that you chew hard and that have strong tastes. You will want a full-bodied summer wine for these dishes. These include Italian Malvasia and oaked California Chardonnay.

Second, there are sweet dishes which require a sweet summer wine.

Third, there are fatty dishes for which you will want a wine that is high in acidity such as the Rieslings, Sauvignon Blancs and most sparkling wines.

Fourth and finally there are protein-rich dishes that you will want a wine such as a Cabernet or Syrah for. These wines do not pair well with fish and other seafood or salty dishes.

For The Grill

Here are some grilled food and summer wine combinations that are rather alluring:

Whenever you marinate shrimp in olive oil, lime juice, onion, garlic and rosemary and grill it you will want Pinot Grigio. This summer wine is light and crisp. It has a fruity taste, with mild flavors of citrus and peaches.

For chicken legs you will want Shiraz, which has a soft, rich red berry flavor.

If you are having barbecued ribs the summer wine that you will want is Syrah. It has a rich and spicy black plum flavor.

Pork chops go well with Riesling. This is a soft, lightly sweet wine that has golden apple and peach flavors.

For steak you will want Cabernet Sauvignon. This is a big oak, big black cherry wine that goes great with steaks.

Whenever you make salmon you can choose from a few different types of summer wine. These include Grenache, Mourvdre, Syrah and Zinfandel – all of which are hugely rich and fruity.

A great wine to enjoy whenever you make grilled peaches, pears, pineapples or bananas is Ménage a Trois Rosé. This summer wine has lots of strawberry and light cherry flavors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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