Red or white? Makes no difference when it comes to wine and food

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Our great friends at Newser have once again managed to pair a great aggregate and I am reproducing it here for your reading pleasure. No doubt the staff would have much preferred to write an “original” story but I doubt they have a staff of chefs, wine tasters, and other connoisseurs of the grape, so they aggregate the sources that do. GASP! Let’s un-friend them!

Well enough silliness! You see I am one of those people who always thought you had to drink white wine with fish, and red wine with meat. I rarely ever drink wine just by itself, because it makes me sleepy, but I do enjoy a glass with a meal, which also makes me sleepy but what the hell. Life is short, even for the horses we ride in on.

Enjoy this wonderful little aggregate:

We’re always hearing that this wine goes with that food, and feel guilty when we get it wrong—but what if it’s all a scam? asks Jason Wilson in the Washington Post. A new study suggests it might be: More than 60% of wine sipped by “high-frequency wine drinkers”—those who drink wine several times weekly—isn’t accompanied by a meal. It just goes to show, argues wine blogger Alder Yarrow, that the chatter over correct pairings is propagated by the wine establishment, perhaps as a moneymaking move. “For every glass carefully chosen to go with a specific dish, there appear to eight more consumed in the same way most people drink a scotch,” writes Yarrow at Vinography.

“I can only barely imagine what might happen if wine writing and the attentions of wine lovers actually matched their real behavior,” muses Yarrow, who has for years called “correct” pairing a lie. “Would wine drinkers feel free to not only drink whatever they like, but to explore and experiment in their wine choices without fear of doing something wrong? Would more people actually drink wine because they knew it didn’t always HAVE to go with food?” (Click for more complaints about fancy wine talk.)

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