Pairing wine is the art of complementing your meal with exactly the right choice of red, white, rose or even bubbly. Unfortunately, if you think the simple mantra of red goes with red meat and white goes with chicken and fish, is the only thing you need to know, it’s time to think again.
If you want to get the best out of your red, keep the bubbles in your champagne or give your next rose the respect it deserves, you may well need to pay more attention to the glass you decide to use because not all glasses are made equal.
We can all get lost in the terminology and quasi-poetic aspects of wine. There are undoubtedly plenty of professionals and enthusiastic amateurs who can wax lyrical on the benefits of one particular grape over another, sometimes postulating things us mere mortals find difficult to comprehend. If you’ve been invited to your first wine tasting, the good news is that it’s not as complicated nor as high-brow as you think. And if you want to grow your wine knowledge...
