{"id":1126,"date":"2010-01-18T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2010-01-18T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T13:00:31","slug":"food-and-wine-pairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/food-and-wine-pairing\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Wine Pairing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that Chardonnay goes with poached eggs? I didn’t either. It was date night at the Washington Winemaker household, and that meant I needed to select a wine to go with dinner. The Lady of the House decided we were having eggs poached in mushroom soup. This is a new recipe for us from Morrison Wood’s With A Jug Of Wine<\/em>. A great cookbook for a winemaker that, sadly, is out of print. His more recent Through Europe with a Jug of Wine<\/a>\"\" is available and will probably end up in my library.<\/p>\n

The Wine and Food Matcher<\/h2>\n

Alright, we were both excited about the recipe but what was I going to serve with it? If you can pair wine with breakfast cereal<\/a>, then eggs ought to be doable. I needed some advice, though, and for that I turned to Natalie MacLean. She’s a respected wine writer and the author of Red, White, and Drunk All Over<\/a>\"\". The wine and food matcher on her homepage<\/a> gives you suggested wine pairings if you pick a food or suggests foods for a particular wine.<\/p>\n

Would you like Chardonnay with that?<\/h2>\n

For eggs, it suggested Chardonnay. It just so happens that I’ve been buying a lot of bargain Chardonnay that I really like – it holds it’s own against $15 bottles for a fraction of the price – so I uncorked a bottle. How’d it turn out? The eggs were terrific, so was the wine, and Natalie was right – they were great together.<\/p>\n

As to having eggs for dinner, well those of us who think pizza is breakfast food can’t object too loudly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That old rule, red with meat and white with fish, goes a surprisingly long way. But when you’ve got a situation it doesn’t cover or you’d just like a second opinion, try Natalie Maclean’s Wine and Food Matcher. Here’s what happened when I tried to find a wine match for eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tasting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t