Wine Wednesday Words of Advice ~ September 21, 2011 – What To Drink With Curry?

Each Wine Wednesday we share words of advice from your favourite winos, oenophiles and beyond . . .

Wine and Food Match: What To Drink With Curry?

 

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Question of the week

THE QUESTION: What wine goes with a decent curry – or sushi?

THE ANSWER: The practice, or “art” as some would have it, of matching food and wine is surprisingly divisive. Some of the most ardent lovers of food and wine that I know (restaurateurs and winemakers among them) will have nothing to do with it, seeing it as a blend of quackery and the kind of rule-based snobbery that makes people fret about fish knives and the correct motion of their soup spoon. For these sceptics, the voluminous literature on the subject amounts to nothing more than a prolix reply to a simple question: “What will I drink with dinner tonight?”

Read the rest of the answer over at The Guardian.

 

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Happy Wine Wednesday everyone!