Food & Wine Pairing: Flavors

Video Transcript

"Hi. I am going to tell you about the real worlds of food and wine pairing. And I would like to talk to you about flavors. When most people think about pairing food and wine they automatically think of flavors. They think ewe I have got a spicy dish let’s get a spicy wine. Or I have got a fruity dish let’s get a fruity wine. Now those flavor matches are nice they are a good idea. But I am going to tell you the real truth about flavors in food and wine. Here goes. They are not that important. Flavors are fun. You can match them, you can contrast them, you can mix them, you can match them. However they are not that big of a deal. As a matter of fact they are the last think you should look at when you think of a food and wine match up. The most things are the taste. Salt, sweet, sour and bitter. And the textures, whether it be full, heavy or whether it be light and light bodied. So when it comes to flavor matching a lot of people think that they have the secret to food and wine if they look at flavors. But to tell you the truth it is not that important. Look at the taste look at the textures. The flavors will take care of themselves."