Your best Wine & Cheese match

[Marc_Frontario]

Earthy leathery bordeaux with vsop reypenaer aged gouda

[Mark_Christenson]

@Chris Seiber

I never cease to be amazed at how almost every food and wine pairing thread on this board (“Wine berserkers”) devolves into the conclusion that “you can’t drink wine with that food, it will kill the wine, at best you can drink a few offbeat white varietals with it, the best choice is to go with craft beer.”

Then, of course, in other threads, everyone professes that you can only drink wine at mealtime, and only with company, and so forth.

I’m not sure people actually practice what they say in these threads, but if they do, it’s a shame to only be able to drink wine (other than Jura whites, Alsatian Gewurtztraminer, Spanish rose and whatever) during dinner, with company, while it’s not hot and humid out, while you eat continental Europe or wine country cuisine, and so forth.

Me, I freakin’ love wine, and I enjoy it happily with just about anything I eat, as well as while I’m not eating, or if I’m eating alone. I make an effort to avoid terrible pairings (no cabernet with my Vindaloo), but I try not to miss the forest for the trees either.

Couldn’t agree more. I was actually going to post as one in the camp that cheese and wine don’t generally go well together (even some of the matches here might not work depending on the age of the cheese, the age/producer of the wine, etc.), but that I match them all the time. Our favorite dinner is 4-5 cheeses with some crackers, salumi, bread, and pâté and a couple bottles of wine. I choose the cheeses I like, the wines I like, and if they happen to be a great pairing, then great. Sometimes they are horrible together, in which case I don’t eat that cheese and then take a sip of wine (or vice versa). Cheese and wine are both too good…

[Pierre-Yves]

@François Audouze

The greatest combination is Chateau Chalon with Comté. It works perfectly.
Then I would put young Yquem with Stilton
old Yquem with mango
old Maury with chocolate
Champagne Salon with Belota Belota Spanish ham.

Savagnin sous voile and Comté is the one the best wine and cheese pairing ever.
Others are good but I have yet to experience such symbiotic taste. I am all ears though !!

[Lance_Smith]

@Thomas Keim

@Lance Smith

Mimolette with anything red!

Love that cheese with red wine. A nice SC Mtn Pinot perhaps.

oooohhhh - Totally agree - love Mimolette! - and, I just found out it’s one of the lowest calory cheeses you can have -

Double win!

[Todd_Keathley]

@Charles Weiss

@Thomas Keim

Another classic that deserves to be is Gewurztraminer with Alsatian Munster.

Charles

+1 here…

Also agree with anything w/ Epoisses