Pair food with wine like a sommelier

You get access to the knowledge of a sommelier pairing wine from the whole world of wine with food. Start with wine and pair with suitable food. Besides type of wine, i.e. red,white, dry, sweet etc, one has to know from where it is, which grape variety it is made from and sometimes its style. Find suitable food dish and cooking methods. Most often included ingredients and accessories must be determined to arrive at a suitable pairing of wine and food.

Select type of wine that food you are looking for should pair with

Fine wine guidance-type of wine

Brown

Dry to medium dry fortified wine with oxidative aging from Solera system barrels or heat exposure, i. e. Sherry or Madeira

Brown sweet

Medium sweet to sweet wine or fortified wine with oxidative aging from different treatments

Cider

Dry cider from apples

Sparkling

Champagne and sparkling wine predominately made with the traditional method

Red soft

Wine with low or medium high level of tannins at the most

Red tannic

Wine with high or medium high level of tannins at least

Red sweet

Port and other fortified wine with residual sugar from stopped fermentation after addition of wine spirit, also Recioto from dried grapes

White floral fat

Dry wine with floral and somewhat fat character most often with lower level of acidity

White crisp

Dry wine with high or medium high level of acidity at least

White medium dry

Wine with obvious residual sugar without being sweet

White mild

Dry wine with low or medium high level of acidity at the most

White sweet

Medium sweet or sweet wine often from grapes with noble rot