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How would you like to be able to treat your friends and loved ones to meals of perfectly paired food and wine? Learn the real rules of food and wine pairing from professional sommelier in this free culinary video series.
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Taste, flavor and texture are just the starting points for pairing food and wine. Learn how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
While white wine with fish is fine, rules are meant to be broken. Learn how to pair fish and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Read wine with meat is a rule that works. A heavy food goes well with a heavy wine. Learn how to pair meat and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Strawberries and champagne are not as good a match as some may think. Try a sweet wine, instead. Learn how to pair strawberries and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Food and wine change each other and pair up based upon taste components primarily. Textures and flavors are also important. Learn the real rules of how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Tastes, or salt, sour, sweet and bitter, are the primary components for choosing the right wine for your food. Learn how to pair the tastes of your food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
You can match flavors or you can contrast them. Flavors are the last consideration. Learn how to pair the flavors of your food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Textures, heavy and light, is the next consideration after taste. Textures should usually match. Learn how to pair the textures of your food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
It is important to identify the key elements of your meal. The taste component is going to stand out. Learn how to pair the key elements of your food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Are you going to contrast the flavors and tastes when choosing your wine? Learn how to contrast your food and wine pairing from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Would you like similar tastes and flavors in your food and wine pairing? Learn how to pair food and wine in similarity mode from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Acids in food cancel out acids in wine. Learn the acid and acid rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Sweet food makes wine taste more acidic and flat. Match sweet with sweet. Learn the sweetness in food rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Natural tannin in food makes it hard to taste the tannin in wine. Learn the natural tannin rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Fatty foods make tannin and acid in wine less apparent. Learn the fatty foods rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Salty food goes well with acidic wines. Learn the salty foods with acidic wine rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Who doesn't like a little sweet and salty? Learn the salty foods with sweet wines rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Be very careful if you pair salty foods with tannin in wines. Learn the salty foods with tannin rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Bitterness in food accentuates bitterness in wine. Learn the bitter tastes rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Matching a flavor in a wine with a flavor in a food can add a nice bridge to your meal. Learn the flavor bridge rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Flavor contrasts in food and wine can add excitement to your meal. Learn the contrast and affinity rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Rich food goes well with rich wine; light food goes well with light wine. Learn the texture match rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
While tricky, texture contrast can work sometimes. Learn the texture contrast rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Sometimes psychology trumps all the other rules of food and wine pairing. Learn the psychology rule in how to pair food and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Affordable, fruity, red, heavy, low tannin wines go well with barbecue. Learn how to pair barbecue and wine from a professional writer, speaker and sommelier in this free culinary video.
Wine comes in many flavors, tints, tones, levels of dryness and blends. Wines are used for cooking or to enhance the flavor of a meal or certain dish. Wine is made from the fermentation of fruits such as grapes, strawberries, elderberries and blackcurrants. Depending on the grapes, the product yielded is called zinfandel, pinot grigio, pinot noir, merlot, chardonnay, blanco noir or other variations of wine. Some wines include carbon dioxide that is a product of fermentation. These sparkling wines, or champagnes, and are often used in celebratory events such as weddings, graduations and holidays.
In this free video series, you will learn how to pair food and wine. Get tips for both red and white wines. Learn the real rules of food and wine pairing from Jane Nickles, author of "Wine Speak 101" and Sommelier Instructor for the Texas Culinary Academy. Miss Jane will dispel myths and give you thorough instruction int he intricacies of taste, texture, flavor, contrast and similarity. By the end of the series, you will know the rules, from the acid and acid rule to the flavor bridge rule.
Jane Nickles Jane Nickles is the author of "Wine Speak 101", and a wine writer for "The Texas Wine and Food Gourmet", and "Eat and Drink Magazine". Jane is a certified specialist of wine, recognized by the society of wine educators. "Miss Jane," as her students call her, is the Sommelier Instructor for the Texas Culinary Academy, and she presents her popular wine seminars at Wine Bars, Restaurants, and Culinary Festivals throughout the country.dkdk
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