Good wine with delicious food and interesting company can help you to keep the most pleasant memories. Of course you can choose companions by yourselves, but in this article we propose you some advices how correctly to select wine and what to eat with it.

A few words about bans

Let us start with food that is undesirable to use with the wine, only if you do not aspire to mute the taste of wine.
The dishes with vinegar, for example salads, categorically don’t combine with wine.
Another taboo is nuts. When you eat nuts, the taste buds of the tongue react to the taste of nuts and you don’t feel anything else.
By the way, do not smoke when you’re drinking wine. The smoke of tobacco doesn’t combine with a wine aroma, and taste of nicotine will not accept to feel the flavor of drink.

The basic rules of food selection

Everything is simple. If the dish has rich taste, drink light wine, and, conversely, with exquisite wines is offered to eat light snacks without brisk taste. In other words, if you want to cook something tasty with a lot of spice, or if you are going to visit someone and you do not know what exactly you will eat, take a bottle of red or white dry table wine.

There is one simple rule for the best combination of food with wine – red wine is with red meat, white – with white. Almost all sorts of wine can be perfectly drunk with the cheeses.

A little more about the wine color and food

Red wine
Red wine combines with lots of meat spicy dishes, a variety of cheeses, grilled meat, BBQ.
It can be used safely with pizza, pasta, fruits and berries. Often the red wine is served with sushi, as well as with salmon and trout.

White wine
With white wine can be eaten almost all seafood (oysters, lobster, mussels), fish, eggs, poultry and veal. In addition, white wine goes well with low-fat sausages, salads.

Pink wine
Drink pink wine with seafood, desserts, cold meat.

Semi-sweet and sweet wine

Sweet and semi-sweet wines are usually served with desserts, fruit, chocolate, cookies, ice cream.

Champagne and sparkling wine
Champagne can be served to almost any meal. Of course, the semi-dry champagne and sparkling wines are often a part of dessert.