Best Cheese To Pair With Pinot Gris
In our articles, we have a strong focus on the best cheeses to pair with a variety of different foods. However, just for a moment, we are taking a step back from the cheese part of our best cheese pairings to focus on the most classic cheese pairing of them all, wine – in particular, Pinot Gris. What is Pinot Gris/ Pinot Grigio? Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are popular white wine choices all around the world. Best known for their light, crisp texture, as well as their clean and easy to drink flavour. A unique flavour profile provides a great basis to pair your wine with a variety of different cheeses. Before we get into the best cheeses for your wine, let us take a look at the similarities and the differences between Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio. The Similarities: Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are the same grape…
Cheese Pairings For Mulled Wine
Mulled wine (or better known as Glűhwein in Austria and Germany) is a great winter warming drink, full of rich sweet fruits and intense spices. Mulled wine has some great and interesting flavours, making it perfect to pair with a variety of different cheeses. In this article, we look at the best cheese pairings with mulled wine. Cheese Pairings with Mulled Wine: Mulled wine is a heavy drink and therefore requires a heavy cheese to compliment it. Light cheese may become lost in the mulled wines flavours. Bold cheeses such as strong blue cheese, semi-soft cheeses such as Brie and Camembert pair very well. Hot cheese dishes such as fondue also make a great pairing. Blue Cheeses: Strong blue cheese is the perfect pairing with mulled wine. This is because it has contrasting flavours. Examples of blue cheese to use include: Stilton, Gorgonzola and Roquefort. These strong, salty and creamy…
How To Pair Cheese And Cider
Cider is perhaps not the first alcohol that comes to mind when you think about pairing cheese. However, when paired correctly, cheese and cider can create a wonderful and unique flavour combination. In this article, we look at the best cheese types to pair with each different type of cider. How to Pair Cheese and Cider: When deciding on a cheese type for your cider, consider whether you prefer complementing or contrasting flavours. This will vastly impact the cheese types you select. If you decide on contrasting flavours, it is important not to be too bold or abstract, as this may overpower each other and ruin the flavours. However, when considering complementing flavours, a good phrase to use is ‘what grows together goes together’. When choosing your cheese type, read the description of the cider which defines the flavour profile. This will heavily influence the cheeses you choose to pair…
Why Pair Cheese and Wine Together?
Cheese and wine is one of the most well-known food pairings. What is the reason for this and why is it so popular? In this article, we take a look as to the reason why we pair cheese and wine together, and what makes this combination so good. Why do We Pair Cheese and Wine Together? Historically, for hundreds of years, cheese and wine from the same locations were paired together. This is because they were produced on the same farm or the local village, and exporting/ importing products was not common practice. Therefore, people ate and matched products that were available to them.Cheese and wine from the same areas were subject to the same ingredients, for example, minerals in the soil or the amount of rainfall produced.As a result, this has led to the saying “What grows together, goes together”. A useful phrase for when cheesemongers or sommeliers are…
What Is The Mysterious Purple Rind Cheese?
Everyone loves to try something different, and cheese that is an unusual colour is no exception. In this article, we take a look at four popular kinds of cheese that have a purple rind. How does Cheese get a Purple Rind? Cheeses that have a purple rind are often semi-hard or hard cheeses. This means that they have matured for a longer time, usually a minimum of 6 months. The majority of purple cheeses have been washed or soaked in wine, which creates a deep colour and well as enhancing the flavour. Everyone loves a cheese and wine pairing, but what if you could combine it into one with wine-soaked cheese? Wine soaked cheeses came about during the times when there were high tax penalties on cheese and wine products. To avoid paying a lot of tax on their products, cheesemakers would hide the cheese inside the wine barrels. Then…